Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)
Core
Building and maintaining critical backend infrastructure including sandboxing, authentication, authorization, and service orchestration to support Perplexity's AI products.
Role type
Senior IC backend platform engineer
Builds
Production-grade backend systems for authentication, authorization, real-time data flows, and sandboxing
Domain
Cloud infrastructure and security
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
System design, backend development, cloud infrastructure, security-sensitive development, technical leadership, architectural decision making
Preferred skills
Experience with multi-language environments, mentoring engineers
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Rust
Responsibilities
Design and implement sandboxing platform for untrusted code execution, define and extend RBAC/authorization primitives, own backend services for authentication and encryption, set technical standards for reliability and observability, partner with product/AI teams on platform interfaces, provide technical leadership and mentorship
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC