Senior SRE: Cloud Infra at Scale & Automation

Perplexity; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own production at scale across compute, networking, and storage. You will run the Kubernetes fleet (EKS), design resilient networks, and keep services fast and reliable as traffic grows.

You will define SLOs, implement automated tooling via Terraform and CI/CD, lead incident responses, and drive durable fixes while optimizing costs and capacity in a multi-account AWS environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS expertise across VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, and more.
• Experience running production Kubernetes at scale and cluster upgrades.
• Terraform mastery with multi-account state management.
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancers).
• Code in Python, Go, or Rust for automation and tooling.
• Observability experience with Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana to drive SLOs.
• Track record leading production incidents and durable fixes.
• Own problems end-to-end with initiative and autonomous work style.

Responsibilities

• Own production at scale and manage compute, networking, and storage.
• Operate and upgrade EKS clusters; tune autoscaling and DNS.
• Design and operate VPCs, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink across regions.
• Manage storage (S3, EBS, DynamoDB) including backups and durability.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform and CI/CD; create reusable modules.
• Define SLOs, build alerts, plan for failures, run game days.
• Lead incident response and drive blameless postmortems.
• Plan capacity, quotas, reservations, and cost efficiency.
• Build self-serve tooling to reduce toil.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Networking

Python

Go

Rust

Observability

Incident response

Cost optimization

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

Flux

Envoy

Istio

Cilium

eBPF

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own production at scale across compute, networking, and storage. You will run the Kubernetes fleet (EKS), design resilient networks, and keep services fast and reliable as traffic grows.

You will define SLOs, implement automated tooling via Terraform and CI/CD, lead incident responses, and drive durable fixes while optimizing costs and capacity in a multi-account AWS environment.