Member of Technical Staff

What you'll do

• Build intelligent products across onboarding, membership management, organization insights, permissions, subscriptions, billing, and usage controls.
• 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.
• Collaborate closely with PM, Design, Data Science, Sales, and Enterprise customers to turn complex administrative, billing, and governance needs into simple, reliable product experiences.
• Own critical platform primitives end-to-end, from frontend admin flows to backend services, data models, billing integrations, observability, and production operations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience; we’re open to strong junior and mid-level candidates with a track record of shipping.
• Backend / Full Stack engineering skills, with experience in designing and building scalable and reliable distributed systems, serving high traffic and a large user base.
• Strong execution: you can take ambiguous product needs, break them down, and ship durable systems with clear customer impact.
• Experience building product or platform features that require careful data modeling, state management, backend correctness, and high-quality user experience.
• Strong product judgment; you can make complex admin, billing, and permissions workflows feel simple and intuitive.
• Self-motivated with strong ownership instincts; you identify problems, propose solutions, and drive improvements without waiting for perfect specs.
• 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.