Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Crawler)
Perplexity AI · London · Belgrade · Ireland
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At a glance
Highlights
- Improve throughput and reliability for Perplexity's web crawler fleets.
- Build safer deployments, observability, and durable fixes for crawling.
- Own capacity planning and turn incidents into lasting reliability gains.
Ideal candidate
A reliability-minded engineer who thrives operating large distributed systems and turning incidents into durable improvements. You care about throughput, efficiency, and calm, data-driven incident leadership.
Requirements
- 5+ years in SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure-heavy backend roles with strong programming in Python, C++, Rust, or Go
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, production Kubernetes, IaC such as Terraform, and automated deployment workflows
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and load balancing
- Experience building observability with Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana and using SLOs to guide reliability
- Proven experience diagnosing distributed-system failures, leading production incidents, and improving performance or efficiency
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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