Member of Technical Staff (Search Core DevOps Engineer)
Core
Design, implement, and scale highly available, high-performance infrastructure and tooling supporting Perplexity's Search feature.
Role type
Senior IC DevOps Engineer (Search Infrastructure)
Builds
Scalable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and developer tooling for the Search product.
Domain
Internet Search / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration, Docker containerization, Python scripting, Terraform, database management, caching strategies, system monitoring, CI/CD workflow design
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Terraform, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis
Responsibilities
Design and implement highly available, high-performance, and scalable systems; Design and implement various tools for other engineers; Design and implement CI/CD and other workflows; Maintain and optimize key-value and relational databases; Scale and load balance web server backends; Monitor systems and applications to identify and resolve reliability, scalability, or performance issues.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC