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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

Perplexity· Platform & Infrastructure
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San Francisco, Palo Alto, London, Berlin, Belgrade, New York City$220k - $405k + equityFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Cloud Infrastructure team owns foundational cloud primitives and deployment models powering Perplexity’s products, delivering security, isolation, and compliance layers, multi-region infrastructure, and core services to run consumer and enterprise workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap and technical strategy for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management.
  • Design and operate Perplexity’s cloud networking fabric, including VPC architectures, private connectivity, and peering with hyperscalers and neocloud providers to support low-latency, high-throughput AI workloads.
  • Architect and scale compute platforms (Kubernetes/EKS, autoscaling groups, and mixed CPU/GPU fleets) to efficiently serve online request traffic and background workloads across regions.
  • Build and maintain secure, isolated deployment topologies for multi-tenant, single-tenant, and customer‑owned cloud (BYOC) environments, including cross-account networking, identity, and policy guardrails.
  • Implement and evolve multi-region strategies for availability, failover, and data locality, including traffic routing, regional capacity planning, and disaster recovery playbooks.
  • Partner with security to deliver enterprise controls such as BYOK/KMS integrations, network isolation, and auditability required for regulated customers.
  • Develop automation, tooling, and runbooks that make day‑2 operations (provisioning, upgrades, incident response) predictable and repeatable for Perplexity products across all environments.

Qualifications

  • Deep experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS (VPC design, routing, security groups, load balancing, private connectivity).
  • Strong background with Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration, including multi‑cluster, multi‑region, or multi‑account setups.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud networking and peering (VPC peering, Transit Gateway, private link/service endpoints, or similar constructs in neoclouds).
  • Experience building or operating secure, isolated environments for enterprise customers (single‑tenants, BYOC, or on‑prem), ideally including BYOK/KMS integrations and compliance constraints.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and strong software engineering skills in at least one of Python, Go, or Rust for automation and tooling.
  • Strong debugging and incident management skills across distributed systems (networking, compute, and platform layers), with a track record of driving root‑cause analysis and long‑term fixes.
  • 7+ years of industry experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, including leading the design of complex systems or migrations.

Skills

Required:Cloud infrastructure design and operation (AWS)Kubernetes/EKSCloud networking and peeringBYOK/KMS integrations and enterprise complianceInfrastructure as code (Terraform)

Benefits

  • USD salary ranges apply to U.S.-based positions; international salaries set based on local market.
  • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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