# Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Fraud Prevention)

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/perplexity)
**Location:** London
**Work mode:** Hybrid
**Seniority:** Senior
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Category:** Software
**Department:** Other
**Listed:** 2026-10-23

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## What you'll do

- Design, build, operate high-throughput fraud detection services
- Build data pipelines and real-time feature computation
- Collect and process trust signals
- Integrate fraud decisions into product, auth, payment flows
- Own production reliability: observability, alerting, incident response

## What you need

- 5+ yrs high-throughput backend systems production
- Strong systems programming: Rust, Go, C++
- Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud infrastructure experience
- Solid data fundamentals: stream/batch, caching, storage
- Pragmatic ownership-driven approach

## Job description

**About the role**

Perplexity's fraud prevention team protects our products, users, and infrastructure from fraud and abuse across the whole lifecycle: sign-up, authentication, payments, API usage, and product features. We build and operate a real-time decisioning platform together with the surrounding systems: data pipelines for detection and model training, integrations with product and payment systems, and internal tooling for investigation and response. As a software engineer on the team, you will own services end to end, from design to production operations, and work closely with fraud analysts, ML engineers, and product teams to make abuse expensive and legitimate usage frictionless.

  
**Responsibilities**

-   Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend services for fraud detection and prevention
    
-   Build data pipelines and real-time feature computation that power detections and ML models
    
-   Collect and process trust signals
    
-   Integrate fraud decisions into product, auth, and payment flows across Perplexity
    
-   Own reliability of production services: observability, alerting, safe rollouts, incident response
    
-   Build internal tooling for investigation, enforcement, and auditability
    
-   Partner with fraud analysts to turn new abuse patterns into production detections quickly
    

**Qualifications**

-   5+ years building and operating high-throughput, latency-sensitive backend systems in production
    
-   Strong systems programming skills; Rust, Go, or C++ experience preferred (we write Rust)
    
-   Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and cloud infrastructure
    
-   Solid data fundamentals: stream/batch computations, caching and storage trade-offs
    
-   Pragmatic, ownership-driven approach: ship incrementally, measure, and make failures degrade safely
    

**Nice to have**

-   Fraud prevention, anti-abuse, or payments-risk domain experience
    
-   Experience serving ML models in production
    
-   Client-side experience (web or mobile) for signal collection

## Other open roles at Perplexity

- [Legal Response Specialist](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/legal-response-specialist-ffa25e26-9675-4ab1-bc98-325675879e1d) — San Francisco
- [Senior Commercial Counsel, Enterprise](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/senior-commercial-counsel-enterprise-bf978d98-404d-48a5-bcf2-a1f70f195c2b) — San Francisco
- [Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/member-of-technical-staff-software-engineer-experience-06dcd116-2b07-4f40-869e-06ed540f7614) — San Francisco
- [Member of Data Staff (Data Acceleration)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/member-of-data-staff-data-acceleration-d89a3cad-50d5-47fd-8f87-be55285ee2b1) — San Francisco
- [Sr. Workplace Coordinator](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/sr-workplace-coordinator-6dd1dba6-8dba-4bfe-a393-a43a8a55bb0c) — San Francisco

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