Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data 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 Data Platform team owns the end-to-end data lifecycle at Perplexity, from ingestion through processing, storage, and serving, powering product features, analytics, experimentation, AI workloads, and the company’s data lake. The team defines the architecture for batch and streaming systems, the orchestration and observability stack, and a self-serve data platform, while thoughtfully combining platforms such as…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Perplexity’s careers page.
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