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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

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

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

Highlights

  • Own roadmap for agent-driven management of core cloud primitives.
  • Design secure deployment models for consumer and enterprise products.
  • Scale multi-region infrastructure for reliability, availability and locality.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Seasoned infrastructure owner who thrives owning complex distributed systems end-to-end and cares deeply about security, reliability, and making day-2 operations effortless.

Requirements

  • Deep experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS (VPC design, routing, security groups, load balancing, private connectivity).
  • Strong background with Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration, including multi-cluster, multi-region, or multi-account setups.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud networking and peering (VPC peering, Transit Gateway, private link/service endpoints, or similar constructs in neoclouds).
  • Experience building or operating secure, isolated environments for enterprise customers (single-tenant, BYOC, or on-prem), ideally including BYOK/KMS integrations and compliance constraints.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and strong software engineering skills in at least one of Python, Go, or Rust for automation and tooling.
  • Strong debugging and incident management skills across distributed systems (networking, compute, and platform layers), with a track record of driving root-cause analysis and long-term fixes.
  • 7+ years of industry experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, including leading the design of complex systems or migrations.

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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