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
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