Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Seattle · New York City
Applied AIremote$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Run production infrastructure powering hundreds of millions of monthly queries.
- Own availability, latency and cost for consumer, API and enterprise products.
- Lead incident response and design systems for zone and regional failure.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A production owner who treats reliability as a software problem and thrives in fast-moving environments. You stay calm in incidents, automate away toil, and own ambiguous problems end-to-end.
Requirements
- Deep AWS expertise across VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, ELB, Route 53, S3 and EBS
- Production Kubernetes at scale including upgrades, networking and autoscaling
- Terraform mastery with modules, multi-account state and safe refactors
- Strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, DNS, TLS and routing
- Write automation and tooling in Python, Go or Rust
- Fluency with observability tools and defining SLOs and actionable alerts
- Track record leading production incidents to durable fixes with end-to-end ownership
Lab profile
About Perplexity AI
Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.
What they build
- Perplexity AI answer engine
- Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
- Comet AI browser and desktop apps
Known for
- Agentic AI and agent capabilities
- Applied AI product engineering
- Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
- Multimodal AI and integrations
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Serves millions of users daily
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