Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)
Perplexity5 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and technical strategy for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management.
- Design and operate cloud networking fabric, including VPC architectures, private connectivity, and peering with hyperscalers and neocloud providers.
- Architect and scale Kubernetes/EKS compute platforms, autoscaling groups, and mixed CPU/GPU fleets across regions.
- Build and maintain secure, isolated multi-tenant, single-tenant, BYOC, and customer-owned deployment environments.
- Implement multi-region availability, failover, data locality, traffic routing, regional capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Partner with security on BYOK/KMS integrations, network isolation, auditability, and enterprise compliance controls.
- Develop automation, tooling, and runbooks for provisioning, upgrades, and incident response.
- Debug distributed systems and drive root-cause analysis and long-term fixes.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, including leading complex system designs or migrations.
- Deep experience designing and operating AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPCs, routing, security groups, load balancing, and private connectivity.
- Strong Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration experience, including multi-cluster, multi-region, or multi-account environments.
- Hands-on cloud networking and peering experience, such as VPC peering, Transit Gateway, private link/service endpoints, or equivalent neocloud constructs.
- Experience building or operating secure, isolated enterprise environments, including single-tenant, BYOC, or on-premises deployments.
- Experience with BYOK/KMS integrations and compliance constraints is preferred.
- Proficiency with Terraform and strong software engineering skills in at least one of Python, Go, or Rust.
- Strong debugging and incident management skills across networking, compute, and platform layers.
- Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not match every listed qualification.
About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.