Cloud Infrastructure SRE: Scale, Reliability, & Automation

Perplexity; California City (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own production infrastructure at scale. You will manage compute, networking, and storage foundations, operate multi-region Kubernetes clusters, and drive cost efficiency while ensuring reliability for consumer and enterprise products.

You’ll design and implement traffic management, storage durability, and incident response with strong emphasis on automation and observability to prevent outages and accelerate recovery.

Qualifications

• Experience running production systems at scale on AWS.
• Kubernetes at scale with cluster upgrades and autoscaling.
• Strong automation and IaC with Terraform or similar.
• Networking fundamentals and fault-tolerant design.
• Ability to code in Python/Go/Rust for tooling and automation.
• Observability mindset: metrics, logs, traces to drive SLOs.
• Proven incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Ownership of problems end-to-end with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

• Own production at scale: compute, networking, and storage foundations.
• Operate and upgrade EKS clusters, tune autoscaling and networking.
• Design VPCs, connectivity, DNS, and cross-account/networking.
• Manage durable data stores, backups, and performance.
• Treat infra as code via Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Define SLOs and run game days / disaster-recovery drills.
• Lead incident response and drive postmortems to durable fixes.
• Plan capacity, quotas, and cost efficiency for growth.
• Develop self-serve tooling to reduce toil for engineers.

Skills

AWS expertise

Kubernetes

Terraform

Networking fundamentals

Automation scripting

Observability

Incident management

End-to-end ownership

Tools

Python

Go

Rust

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Argo CD

Flux

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own production infrastructure at scale. You will manage compute, networking, and storage foundations, operate multi-region Kubernetes clusters, and drive cost efficiency while ensuring reliability for consumer and enterprise products.

You’ll design and implement traffic management, storage durability, and incident response with strong emphasis on automation and observability to prevent outages and accelerate recovery.