Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform) at Perplexity
- Company: Perplexity
- Location: San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $220K – $405K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-06-03
About the role
About the Role The Storage Platform team owns the infrastructure that powers how Perplexity persists, retrieves, and manages data across all systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency for every product and AI workload. This foundational, high-impact group is responsible for the full spectrum of storage technologies – relational databases, vector databases, custom storage implementations, and the tooling to provision, monitor, and optimize them at scale. By building robust abstractions and operational excellence around storage, the team enables engineers across Perplexity to focus on product innovation while trusting that data is fast, reliable, and always accessible. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Design, operate, and continuously improve the storage platform that underpins all Perplexity products and AI workloads, including relational, NoSQL, and vector databases.…
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