Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure at Scale

Perplexity; Seattle (WA); In loco; USD 220.000 - 405.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Perplexity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own production at scale across compute, networking, and storage for our consumer, API, and enterprise products. You will run and optimize Kubernetes fleets on AWS, tuning availability, latency, and cost.

This role emphasizes infrastructure as code, incident leadership, and end-to-end ownership. You will design VPCs, manage data durability, implement Terraform and CI/CD guardrails, and prepare for failures with game days and disaster recovery

Competenze

• Deep AWS expertise with VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, EBS and related services.
• Production Kubernetes at scale including upgrades and autoscalers.
• Terraform mastery with multi-account state management.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing.
• Proficient in Python, Go, or Rust for automation and tooling.
• Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana for SLOs/alerts.
• Track record of leading production incidents and durable fixes.
• Own problems end-to-end and drive the path forward.

Mansioni

• Own production at scale: compute, networking, and storage foundation.
• Run our Kubernetes fleet: operate and upgrade EKS clusters.
• Engineer the network: design VPC architectures and connectivity.
• Keep data durable and fast: manage storage, backups, and restores.
• Manage everything as code: Terraform and CI/CD with guardrails.
• Prepare for failures: define SLOs, alerts, and disaster-recovery exercises.
• Lead incident response: drive resolutions and postmortems.
• Scale ahead of demand: capacity planning and cost efficiency.
• Automate away the toil: build self-serve tooling for teams.

Conoscenze

AWS expertise

Kubernetes at scale

Terraform mastery

Programming: Python/Go/Rust

Observability tooling

Incident response leadership

End-to-end ownership

Strumenti

Terraform

Kubernetes

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Helm

Descrizione del lavoro

Perplexity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own production at scale across compute, networking, and storage for our consumer, API, and enterprise products. You will run and optimize Kubernetes fleets on AWS, tuning availability, latency, and cost.

This role emphasizes infrastructure as code, incident leadership, and end-to-end ownership. You will design VPCs, manage data durability, implement Terraform and CI/CD guardrails, and prepare for failures with game days and disaster recovery