Member of Technical Staff (Search Core DevOps Engineer)

Perplexity; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a DevOps engineer to join our small, fast-moving team to design, implement, and scale infrastructure supporting our search features.

You will build scalable systems, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling, monitor performance, and ensure reliability. Experience with AWS, containers, and Python is valued as we push for rapid iteration and robust reliability across services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of DevOps/SRE/System Administration experience.
• Strong experience with AWS-based cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Python and Terraform.
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, scalable systems.
• Develop tools to assist other engineers in their daily tasks.
• Create CI/CD pipelines to improve stability and speed of iteration.
• Maintain and optimize databases.
• Scale web backends and monitor system performance.
• Build monitoring tools and dashboards for visibility into health and performance.

Skills

AWS expertise

Troubleshooting

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Redis

Python

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a DevOps engineer to join our small team in revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and scaling of the infrastructure, tooling and systems that support our Search feature.

The ideal candidate should have experience in designing highly scalable infrastructure, building systems, tools and performing testing, monitoring, and maintenance. Our backend stack includes Python, Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes - built alongside dedicated in-house AI and search interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, high-performance, and scalable systems.
• Design and implement various tools for other engineers helping them with their day to day job.
• Design and implement CI/CD and other workflows to enhance stability, robustness and speed of iteration.
• Maintain and optimize key-value and relational databases.
• Scale and load balance web server backends to meet rapidly changing needs.
• Monitor systems and applications, proactively identifying and resolving reliability, scalability, or performance issues.
• Develop monitoring tools, alerts, and dashboards to provide visibility into system health and performance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure built on AWS.
• Proficient in database management and caching strategies.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.
• Experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Python and Terraform.
• 3+ years of DevOps/SRE/System Administration experience.