Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform) is open at Perplexity in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $220K - $405K. Posted on Jun 3, 2026, and still on Perplexity’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
The Backend Platform team is the backbone of Perplexity’s product reliability, scalability, and performance, enabling every product and AI team to build with confidence. This high‑impact group builds and maintains critical infrastructure, including backend systems for authentication, authorization, real-time data flows, service orchestration, and sandboxing, to ensure fast, reliable, and secure user experiences. By…
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