Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)
Core
Own compute, networking, and storage at scale to keep production stable for Perplexity's consumer, Computer, API, and enterprise products.
Role type
Senior IC Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
Builds
Production infrastructure fleet (Kubernetes clusters, VPCs, storage layers) for Perplexity's models and agentic workloads
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes)
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
AWS (VPC, EKS, IAM, S3, EBS), Kubernetes (EKS, autoscaling, CNI), Terraform, Python/Go/Rust, Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS), Observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana), Incident Response, Capacity Planning
Preferred skills
Multi-region active-active architectures, Service meshes (Envoy, Istio), GitOps (Argo CD), Stateful systems (Postgres, Redis), FinOps