Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform)

The role

The Infrastructure team builds and operates foundational systems supporting real-time search, retrieval, model serving, and agent workloads. This role involves owning cross-cutting infrastructure problems and designing distributed systems from architecture through production operation.

What you will do

• Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems across compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability
• Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure supporting consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads
• Identify gaps between existing platforms and build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling
• Improve system performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
• Debug complex production issues across service and infrastructure boundaries
• Set technical direction for complex infrastructure systems
• Lead high-impact programs across teams
• Establish durable technical standards through collaboration with infrastructure, product, AI, and security partners

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems
• Track record of owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical impact across teams
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise the engineering bar through architecture, design reviews, and mentorship
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or other systems or backend languages such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java
• Meaningful experience across at least two infrastructure domains, such as cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, or p
• Ability to develop depth quickly in unfamiliar systems, reason across software and infrastructure layers, and drive production incidents from diagnosis through durable resolution

About the company

The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems behind Perplexity’s products.