Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)
$220K–$405K
San Francisco +5 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 3, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Palo Alto
London
Berlin
Belgrade
New York City - Experience
- 7+ years of industry experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, including leading the design of complex systems or migrations.
About the job
Builds and operates secure, multi-region cloud infrastructure and deployment models for Perplexity’s consumer and enterprise products.
What you'll do
- Own the strategy for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management and operate cloud networking and compute platforms.
- Build secure, isolated multi-tenant, single-tenant, BYOC, and on-premises deployment environments, including enterprise security controls.
- Develop multi-region availability, failover, automation, and operational practices across environments.
What they ask for
- Deep experience designing and operating AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Strong Kubernetes/EKS and cloud networking experience, including peering.
- Experience with secure, isolated enterprise environments and infrastructure as code (Terraform); proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust.
- Strong distributed-systems debugging and incident-management skills.
Pay
$220K – $405K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Python, Go, Rust, Transit Gateway, KMS
AI focus
Own the roadmap and technical strategy for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management; support infrastructure serving AI workloads.
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