Lead Backend Platform Engineer: Secure & Scalable Systems

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity in San Francisco seeks a Backend Platform Engineer to enhance its product reliability and scalability. You'll lead the design of backend systems, focusing on sandboxing, authorization, and authentication, while setting standards for reliability and incident response.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of backend experience, strong system design skills, and is proficient in languages like Python or Go. This is a unique opportunity to innovate on infrastructure and lead a team of skilled engineers in a challenging technical environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience designing and building backend systems in production.
• Strong system design skills with efficient, reliable architectures.
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies such as AWS and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of sandboxing platform.
• Define RBAC and authorization primitives.
• Own backend services for authentication and encryption.
• Set technical standards for backend platform design.
• Partner with product and AI teams for platform interfaces.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring.

Skills

System design

Backend development

Collaborative problem solving

Security-sensitive development

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Perplexity in San Francisco seeks a Backend Platform Engineer to enhance its product reliability and scalability. You'll lead the design of backend systems, focusing on sandboxing, authorization, and authentication, while setting standards for reliability and incident response.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of backend experience, strong system design skills, and is proficient in languages like Python or Go. This is a unique opportunity to innovate on infrastructure and lead a team of skilled engineers in a challenging technical environment.