Member of Technical Staff – Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Perplexity

. Own the compute, networking, and storage foundation behind Perplexity's consumer, Computer, API, and enterprise products .

Posted 10/28/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesLead💰 $220,000 - $405,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates deep expertise in AWS infrastructure management, including VPC, EKS, and Terraform, while ensuring high availability and cost efficiency. Capable of leading production incidents and implementing robust disaster recovery strategies across multi-cloud environments.

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AWS ExpertiseProduction Kubernetes ExperienceTerraform MasteryStrong Networking FundamentalsFluency with Observability Tools

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Hard Skills

AWSKubernetesTerraformPythonGoRustTCP/IPDNSLoad BalancingGitOps

Soft Skills

Incident ManagementRoot-Cause AnalysisCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

DatadogPrometheusGrafanaEnvoyIstioCiliumEBPFArgo CDFlux

Industry Keywords

Disaster RecoveryComplianceFinOpsMulti-Cloud OperationsStateful Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDNSDynamoDBEC2ElasticSearchFluxGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesNode.jsPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisRustTCP/IPTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the compute, networking, and storage foundation behind Perplexity's consumer, Computer, API, and enterprise products
Own infrastructure availability, latency, and cost
Operate and upgrade EKS clusters hosting web services, search, datastores, and secure sandboxes
Tune scheduling, autoscaling, node lifecycle, DNS, and service networking
Design and operate VPC architectures, Transit Gateway and PrivateLink connectivity, load balancing, DNS, and egress across accounts, regions, and cloud providers
Own EBS, S3, DynamoDB, managed databases, and caches, including performance, durability, backups, and tested restores
Manage infrastructure through Terraform and CI/CD
Build reusable infrastructure modules and guardrails
Define SLOs and actionable alerts
Design for zone and regional failure and run game days and disaster-recovery exercises
Lead critical production incidents, write blameless postmortems, and implement durable fixes
Own capacity planning, quotas, reservations, and infrastructure cost efficiency
Build increasingly agent-driven tooling for self-service provisioning, upgrades, and remediation workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep AWS expertise, including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, ELB, Route 53, S3, and EBS
Production Kubernetes experience at scale, including cluster upgrades, CNI, CoreDNS, autoscalers such as Karpenter, and node debugging
Terraform mastery, including module design, multi-account state management, refactors, and imports
Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and routing
Ability to write production code in Python, Go, or Rust for automation, tooling, and controllers
Fluency with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
Track record of leading production incidents and implementing durable root-cause fixes
Experience with multi-region active-active or failover architectures and disaster-recovery programs
Experience with proxies, service meshes, and kernel-level networking such as Envoy, Istio, Cilium, or eBPF
Experience with GitOps and progressive delivery tools such as Argo CD or Flux
Experience in enterprise and compliance environments, including single-tenant or BYOC deployments, KMS/BYOK, and SOC 2 or similar controls
Experience running stateful systems such as Postgres, Redis, Vespa, or Elasticsearch
Multi-cloud or neocloud operations experience, including GCP or CoreWeave
FinOps experience, including cost attribution, Savings Plans, and reservations

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Retirement benefits
Fitness benefits
Commuter benefits
Dependent care accounts
Regionally tailored benefits for full-time employees outside the U.S.