Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)
$220K–$405K
San Francisco +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Remote (United States)
Seattle
New York City
About the job
Own and operate the compute, networking, and storage infrastructure behind Perplexity’s products, with responsibility for reliability, performance, and cost.
What you'll do
- Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure across AWS accounts, regions, and providers.
- Define reliability practices, prepare for failures, and lead incident response through resolution and durable fixes.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, upgrades, and remediation using code and self-service tooling.
What they ask for
- Deep AWS expertise and production Kubernetes experience at scale.
- Mastery of Terraform and strong networking fundamentals.
- Ability to write automation and tooling in Python, Go, or Rust.
- Experience with observability tools and leading production incidents.
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-region architectures, disaster recovery, service meshes, GitOps, or progressive delivery.
- Experience with compliance environments, stateful systems, multi-cloud operations, or FinOps.
Pay
$220K – $405K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Python, Go, Rust, Datadog
AI focus
Build increasingly agent-driven tooling to automate infrastructure provisioning, upgrades, and remediation.
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