Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)
Core
Design and operate foundational cloud infrastructure, security, and deployment models powering Perplexity's consumer and enterprise AI products.
Role type
Senior IC cloud infrastructure engineer
Builds
Multi-tenant and single-tenant cloud environments, networking fabrics, and compute platforms for AI workloads
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, networking, and security for AI/ML platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS cloud architecture, Kubernetes/EKS orchestration, cloud networking (VPC peering, Transit Gateway), infrastructure as code (Terraform), Python/Go/Rust, distributed systems debugging, incident management
Preferred skills
BYOC/on-prem experience, BYOK/KMS integrations, multi-region failover strategies
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Python, Go, Rust
Responsibilities
Own technical strategy for agent-driven cloud management; design and operate cloud networking fabric; architect and scale compute platforms; build secure isolated deployment topologies; implement multi-region availability and disaster recovery; partner with security on enterprise controls; develop automation for day-2 operations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
