Staff Storage Platform Engineer – Scalable, Low-Latency Backend

Perplexity; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

B Capital is seeking a Storage Platform Engineer for its team in Palo Alto, California. This role involves designing and continuously improving storage systems that power Perplexity's products and AI workloads, ensuring high availability and performance.

Ideal candidates will have more than 5 years of experience with large-scale systems, expertise in major database technologies, and strong programming skills. You will collaborate closely with product and AI teams to create robust solutions that optimize data management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend or infrastructure systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with major database technology.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and improve the storage platform for Perplexity products.
• Own reliability, performance, and availability SLOs for stateful systems.
• Define storage abstractions and tooling for product teams.

Skills

Database Technology Experience

Distributed Systems Knowledge

Programming Proficiency

Communication Skills

Job description

B Capital is seeking a Storage Platform Engineer for its team in Palo Alto, California. This role involves designing and continuously improving storage systems that power Perplexity's products and AI workloads, ensuring high availability and performance.

Ideal candidates will have more than 5 years of experience with large-scale systems, expertise in major database technologies, and strong programming skills. You will collaborate closely with product and AI teams to create robust solutions that optimize data management.