Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

📋 Description

• Own production at scale. Run the compute, networking, and storage foundation behind Perplexity's
• Run our Kubernetes fleet. Operate and upgrade the EKS clusters that host web services, search
• Engineer the network. Design and operate VPC architectures, Transit Gateway and PrivateLink
• Keep data durable and fast. Own the storage layer (EBS, S3, DynamoDB, and the managed databases and
• Manage everything as code. Run infrastructure through Terraform and CI/CD. Build reusable modules
• Prepare for failures. Define SLOs, build alerts that someone can act on, design for zone and

🎯 Requirements

• Deep AWS expertise. You know VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, ELB, Route 53, S3, EBS, etc. well past the
• Production Kubernetes at scale: cluster upgrades, CNI, CoreDNS, autoscalers like Karpenter, and
• Terraform mastery. You've designed module structures, managed state across many accounts, and run
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing).
• You write real code in Python, Go, or Rust for automation, tooling, and controllers, and you'd
• Fluency with observability tools like Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana, and the judgment to turn

🎁 Benefits

• Multi-region active-active or failover architectures, and disaster-recovery programs with real
• Proxies, service meshes, and kernel-level networking: Envoy, Istio, Cilium, or eBPF.
• GitOps and progressive delivery: Argo CD, Flux, or similar.
• Enterprise and compliance environments: single-tenant or BYOC deployments, KMS/BYOK, SOC 2 or
• Running stateful systems in production: Postgres, Redis, or search engines like Vespa or
• Multi-cloud or neocloud operations (GCP, CoreWeave, or similar).