Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal) is open at Perplexity in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $220K - $405K. Posted on Aug 27, 2026, and still on Perplexity’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design, build, and scale the backend session-worker architecture that powers realtime voice: durable per-session workers, provider routing, and stateful streaming over gRPC. - Own distributed-systems problems end-to-end — session lifecycle, crash recovery, reconnection and replay, multi-region deployment, and graceful degradation under real production load. - Build provider-agnostic streaming protocols from our…
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