Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Crawler)
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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
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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About the Role
You will keep the crawler productive by operating and optimizing Kubernetes workloads, building infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines with safe rollouts, defining SLOs and observability, planning capacity, joining on-call, leading incident response, and writing production software to automate diagnosis and remediation.
Requirements
- 5+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure-heavy backend roles
- Strong programming skills in Python, C++, Rust or Go
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure, production Kubernetes, Terraform and automated deployments
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, load balancing
- Experience with Datadog, Prometheus or Grafana and SLOs
- Experience diagnosing distributed-system failures and leading incidents
Responsibilities
- Operate and optimize Kubernetes workloads for crawler services
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
- Define SLOs and build monitoring, alerting and observability
- Own capacity planning and resource efficiency
- Diagnose queue backlogs, network failures and bottlenecks
- Participate in on-call and lead incident response and postmortems
- Write production software to automate diagnosis and remediation
