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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)

Perplexity is hiring for Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform) in San Francisco. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026, posted 2 times; open as of November 9, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Perplexity
Where
San Francisco
Level
Staff
First seen
August 6, 2026
Postings
2
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

In this senior/staff role, you will shape architecture, set standards, and drive the long-term technical direction of Perplexity’s data ecosystem. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Design and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines that directly power Perplexity product features, AI training and evaluation workflows, analytics, and experimentation. - Build event-driven and streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, PubSub, or similar) for real-time ingestion, transformation, and delivery, alongside batch frameworks for backfills, aggregations, and offline computation. - Lead the architecture of…

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