Staff Engineer, Distributed Systems & Infrastructure

Perplexity; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking an experienced infrastructure-focused software engineer to design, build, and operate distributed systems in a fast-growing environment.

You will own cross-cutting challenges across compute, storage, and networking to improve scalability, reliability, and performance for consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads. Strong Python or systems languages background required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience owning production systems.
• Proficiency in Python or other systems languages and experience in at least two infrastructure domains.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Infrastructure Engineering

Python

Go

Rust

C++

Java

Kubernetes

Cloud Platforms

Storage Systems

Networking

Database Management

Production Reliability

System Architecture

Backend Development

Performance Optimization

Job description

Perplexity is seeking an experienced infrastructure-focused software engineer to design, build, and operate distributed systems in a fast-growing environment.

You will own cross-cutting challenges across compute, storage, and networking to improve scalability, reliability, and performance for consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads. Strong Python or systems languages background required.