Member of Technical Staff Site Reliability Engineer Cloud Infrastructure

5 hours agoLeadSalary: 220K - 405KSan Francisco; New York City; Remote (United States); Seattle Remote Full Time Devops Jobs by Perplexity

Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

Series B

San Francisco, United States

Funding history

Growth/VC round ($200M)Series B ($74M)Series A ($26M)

Investors

Nat Friedman Paul Buchheit Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)Nvidia Kindred Ventures

About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

Remote · San Francisco · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will operate compute, networking, storage, and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale. You will manage AWS systems through Terraform and CI/CD, define SLOs and alerts, lead incident response, plan capacity, test disaster recovery, and automate operational workflows.

Requirements

Deep AWS expertise
Production Kubernetes experience at scale
Terraform expertise
Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and routing
Python, Go, or Rust programming skills
Experience with observability tools and SLOs
Experience leading production incidents

Responsibilities

Operate production compute, networking, and storage infrastructure
Operate and upgrade EKS clusters
Design and operate cloud network architectures
Own storage performance, durability, backups, and restores
Manage infrastructure through Terraform and CI/CD
Define SLOs, alerts, and disaster-recovery exercises
Lead incident response and postmortems
Own capacity planning, reservations, and cost efficiency
Build self-service automation for provisioning, upgrades, and remediation

Benefits