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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto · London · Berlin · Belgrade · New York City

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Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own foundational cloud primitives powering consumer and enterprise products.
  • Build secure isolated deployments spanning multi-tenant to on-premises solutions.
  • Drive multi-region strategy for availability, failover and data locality.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Seasoned cloud infrastructure owner who loves designing resilient, secure platforms and thrives debugging complex distributed systems to power reliable AI products for consumers and enterprises.

Requirements

  • Deep experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS
  • Strong background with Kubernetes/EKS including multi-cluster, multi-region or multi-account setups
  • Hands-on experience with cloud networking and peering
  • Experience building secure isolated environments for enterprise customers including BYOK/KMS and compliance
  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and software engineering in Python, Go or Rust
  • Strong debugging and incident management skills across distributed systems
  • 7+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure including leading complex systems design

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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