Member of Technical Staff (software Engineer, Enterprise Platform)

Perplexity Perplexity · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Product Engineering

Software Engineer on the Enterprise Platform team at Perplexity, building user-facing products and foundational systems for organizations to adopt and manage AI products like Computer. Focuses on onboarding, membership, insights, permissions, subscriptions, billing, and usage controls, collaborating with various stakeholders to create reliable product experiences. Requires strong backend/full-stack skills, experience with distributed systems, and product judgment for complex administrative workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build intelligent products across onboarding, membership management, organization insights, permissions, subscriptions, billing, and usage controls.
  2. Build systems that help organizations manage Perplexity at scale, from first setup through expansion, making it easier for admins to onboard teams, configure features, manage usage, and understand spend.
  3. Collaborate closely with PM, Design, Data Science, Sales, and Enterprise customers to turn complex administrative, billing, and governance needs into simple, reliable product experiences.
  4. Own critical platform primitives end-to-end, from frontend admin flows to backend services, data models, billing integrations, observability, and production operations.

Skills

Required

  • Backend / Full Stack engineering skills
  • designing and building scalable and reliable distributed systems
  • serving high traffic and a large user base
  • product or platform features that require careful data modeling, state management, backend correctness, and high-quality user experience
  • Self-motivated with strong ownership instincts
  • Genuine interest in AI products and willingness to learn quickly

Nice to have

  • Experience building enterprise SaaS products, admin consoles, membership systems, RBAC/permissions, or organization management features.
  • Experience with subscriptions, billing systems, or usage-based pricing.
  • Familiarity with security, compliance, or governance concerns in enterprise products.
  • Experience partnering directly with Sales, Finance, Support, or enterprise customers to solve high-impact product and platform problems.
  • Time spent at a fast-growing startup or on a high-ownership engineering team.

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong execution
  • Strong product judgment