Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform)

Perplexity is a company focused on data management and AI workloads, and they are seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Storage Platform team. This role involves designing and improving the storage infrastructure, ensuring reliability and performance, and collaborating with various teams to optimize data management.

Responsibilities:

• Design, operate, and continuously improve the storage platform that underpins all Perplexity products and AI workloads, including relational, NoSQL, and vector databases
• Own reliability, performance, and availability SLOs for stateful systems, driving root cause analysis and long‑term fixes for storage‑related incidents
• Define and evolve opinionated storage abstractions, APIs, and tooling that make it simple and safe for product teams to consume storage at scale
• Partner with AI, infra, and product teams to design data models and access patterns that meet low‑latency, high‑throughput, and cost‑efficiency requirements
• Lead capacity planning, benchmarking, and lifecycle management for storage clusters, including scaling, migrations, and deprecations