Member Of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform)
perplexity
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80 ptsPerplexity is seeking a highly skilled software engineer to join their Storage Platform team as a Member of Technical Staff. Based in San Francisco, this role offers the opportunity to work on the infrastructure that powers the persistence, retrieval, and management of data across all systems at Perplexity. The Storage Platform team is responsible for ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency for every product and AI workload, and is looking for a talented individual to help drive this effort.
As a Member of Technical Staff, the successful candidate will be responsible for designing, operating, and continuously improving the storage platform that underpins all Perplexity products and AI workloads. This includes relational, NoSQL, and vector databases, as well as the tooling to provision, monitor, and optimize them at scale. The candidate will also own reliability, performance, and availability SLOs for stateful systems, driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes for storage-related incidents. Additionally, they will define and evolve opinionated storage abstractions, APIs, and tooling that make it simple and safe for product teams to consume storage at scale.
To be successful in this role, the candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in storage technologies. They will be partnering with AI, infra, and product teams to design data models and access patterns that meet low-latency, high-throughput, and cost-efficiency requirements, and will lead capacity planning, benchmarking, and lifecycle management for storage clusters. This is a high-impact role that will enable engineers across Perplexity to focus on product innovation while trusting that data is fast, reliable, and always accessible. The company offers a range of benefits and a competitive salary, and is looking for a talented individual to join their team in San Francisco.
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