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Perplexity
Full time
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USA
10/29/2026
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Responsibilities

Own the compute, networking, and storage infrastructure supporting Perplexity’s consumer, Computer, API, and enterprise products.
Operate and upgrade EKS clusters, including scheduling, autoscaling, node lifecycle, DNS, and service networking.
Design and operate VPC architectures, Transit Gateway and PrivateLink connectivity, load balancing, DNS, and cross-account or cross-region egress.
Manage EBS, S3, DynamoDB, managed databases, and caches for performance, durability, backups, and tested restores.
Build reusable Terraform modules, infrastructure guardrails, and safe, reviewable, repeatable deployment workflows.
Define SLOs, build actionable alerts, design for zone and regional failures, and conduct game days and disaster-recovery exercises.
Lead production incident response, write blameless postmortems, and implement durable root-cause fixes.
Own capacity planning, quotas, reservations, and infrastructure cost efficiency.
Develop tooling and agent-driven automation for self-service provisioning, upgrades, and remediation.

Requirements

Deep production AWS expertise, including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, ELB, Route 53, S3, and EBS.
Production Kubernetes experience at scale, including cluster upgrades, CNI, CoreDNS, autoscalers, and node debugging.
Advanced Terraform experience designing modules, managing multi-account state, and completing large refactors and imports safely.
Strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and routing.
Ability to write production automation, tooling, and controllers in Python, Go, or Rust.
Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana and translating telemetry into meaningful SLOs and alerts.
Experience leading production incidents and converting root-cause analysis into durable improvements.
End-to-end ownership and comfort operating independently in ambiguous situations.
Preferred experience with multi-region active-active or failover architectures and disaster-recovery programs.
Preferred experience with Envoy, Istio, Cilium, eBPF, Argo CD, Flux, enterprise or compliance environments, stateful production systems, multi-cloud operations, and FinOps.

Salary: $220k - $405k/yr

Perplexity

The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.

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