Software Engineer salary in United States

Compute Infrastructure builds the platform that turns enormous amounts of compute into a reliable engine for frontier AI.

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Our security team already runs agents on our own environment every day, across finding vulnerabilities, testing our defenses, securing our cloud, and responding to threats.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 4+ years experience
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Your work will be both highly interdisciplinary and firmly grounded in engineering rigor. On any given day, you might: Harness AI agents to research high-stakes policy and regulatory issues pertaining to Perplexity.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
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Develop threat models for emerging attack surfaces in AI-native products, including browser, search, and autonomous agents. Identify and analyze security and privacy threats across AI systems, infrastructure, and user-facing products.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
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Perplexity is seeking software engineers to join our Training Infrastructure team. We’re responsible for the large-scale RL and agent evaluation platforms that enable Perplexity to train state-of-the-art models and optimize agent harnesses.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 2+ years experience
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Perplexity is seeking strong engineers with a passion for delivering frontier intelligence and infrastructure to developers. Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the world around them.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
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Own production at scale. Run the compute, networking, and storage foundation behind Perplexity's consumer, Computer, API, and enterprise products, and own its availability, latency, and cost. Run our Kubernetes fleet.

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Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces. Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition. Partner directly with design to turn visionary ideas into production implementations.

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The Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency team makes Perplexity's agents better at completing real work across enterprise connectors, tools, and data.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
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The Enterprise Trust & Governance team builds the control plane that lets the world’s largest organizations deploy Perplexity broadly and with confidence. Computer and our agents work across a growing share of our customers’ environments, tools, and models.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 4+ years experience
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Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel — install, activation, onboarding, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade moments — on Android.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 3+ years experience
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Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel — install, activation, onboarding, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade moments — on iOS.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 3+ years experience
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Evaluate frontier models against real user tasks, identify useful behaviors and failure modes, and turn the most promising advances into production agent systems. Own the lifecycle from rapid prototyping and evaluation through launch, monitoring, and iteration.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 6+ years experience
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The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems behind Perplexity’s products.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 4+ years experience
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Own distributed-systems problems end-to-end — session lifecycle, crash recovery, reconnection and replay, multi-region deployment, and graceful degradation under real production load.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
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Design and build core primitives – overlays, inputs, navigation, feedback – with APIs that stay coherent as consumers multiply. Work across the design-token pipeline – authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.

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The Enterprise AI Products team builds products that make AI part of how teams work together, not just a tool people use on their own.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
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Build agentic apps, features, and workflows that make Perplexity a daily driver for users. Lead vertical-specific products and AI-powered experiences like a Personal CFO and Email Assistant, turning connected data into reliable, high-impact tools people want to use every day.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 6+ years experience
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The Enterprise Knowledge Platform team builds the data and action layer that connects Perplexity's agents to the systems where enterprise work happens.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 4+ years experience
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Own the personalization and ranking behind key product surfaces to make Perplexity more useful and drive impact on core user and business metrics. Design the decision layer that balances competing objectives to produce the best overall experience for the user.

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Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the full funnel — activation, onboarding, SEO, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade moments — for Computer and every Perplexity product.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 2+ years experience
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The Backend Platform team is the backbone of Perplexity’s product reliability, scalability, and performance, enabling every product and AI team to build with confidence.

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The Data Platform team owns the end-to-end data lifecycle at Perplexity, from ingestion through processing, storage, and serving, powering product features, analytics, experimentation, AI workloads, and the company’s data lake.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
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The Cloud Infrastructure team owns the foundational cloud primitives and deployment models that power Perplexity's products, from multi-tenant public cloud to single-tenant and on-premises solutions for enterprise customers.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 7+ years experience
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Design, build, and own the billing platform and monetization systems that power Computer and every paid experience across Perplexity.

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Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer. Lead features, projects and products end-to-end, from problem definition to technical design, implementation, and launch. Hill climb on hard problems, continuously iterating to improve for ourselves and customers.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
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Plan and execute red team and purple team engagements simulating advanced threat actors across cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes), endpoints, and application surfaces.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
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Perplexity is seeking a hands-on Software Engineer to build and evolve the software, automations, and systems that power our security operations.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
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Perplexity is looking for an Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and iterate on cutting-edge agents powering our core experience in Perplexity Computer.

• Pays more than 88% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
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Serve as the senior technical authority and architectural leader for Product Security, defining the long-term technical vision and security architecture for Snowflake.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers and systems engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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We pretrain our own models and we are scaling to larger models now. Agents handle much of the engineering, but deciding what goes into training still depends on strong human judgment.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
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As a Staff Software Engineer at EliseAI, you won't just write code; you'll build software that improves business operations and makes a real impact on people's lives. Instead of following a playbook, you’ll be creating it.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 6+ years experience
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Join a healthtech team developing clinical decision-support tools for use in healthcare settings.

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
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We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff, AI Researcher to help turn complex, real-world workflows into the evaluation frameworks, reinforcement learning environments, and feedback systems needed to advance frontier AI.

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
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The backend decides who plays whom, scores every game, pays out winners and keeps play fair, across millions of games a week. Game modes and tournaments. Build and evolve async tournaments, blitz, streaks, leagues, challenges and new formats to engage in skill based games.

• Pays more than 85% of Software Engineer jobs
• 3+ years experience
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We’re building a universal autonomous red-teamer: we stress-test any agent (Cursor, Harvey, ElevenLabs, etc) for any risk (e.g. financial losses) and any attacks (e.g. novel jailbreaks). We are now sprinting towards general availability of this product.

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Data Lifecycle at Decagon builds the systems that govern how sensitive customer data is handled throughout its lifetime: what we store, who can access it, how we redact it, and when we delete it.

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Product Engineering at Decagon builds all aspects of the platform our customers use to create, operate, and improve their AI agents. We turn work that currently requires an engineer into product that a CX team can run themselves. This team is core to how Decagon scales.

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Product Engineering at Decagon builds all aspects of the platform our customers use to create, operate, and improve their AI agents. We turn work that currently requires an engineer into product that a CX team can run themselves. This team is core to how Decagon scales.

• Pays more than 98% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
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