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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world's leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world's most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gill, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, Nvidia, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that's growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.

Perplexity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our small team in revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and scaling of the infrastructure and systems that support our web and mobile products.

The ideal candidate should have experience in designing highly scalable infrastructure, building systems, and performing testing, monitoring, and maintenance.Our backend stack includes Python, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes - built alongside dedicated in-house AI and search interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, high-performance, and scalable systems.
• Maintain and optimize key-value and relational databases.
• Scale and load balance web server backends to meet rapidly changing needs.
• Participate in on-call rotation. Monitor systems and applications, proactively identifying and resolving reliability, scalability, or performance issues.
• Develop monitoring tools, alerts, and dashboards to provide visibility into system health and performance.
• Collaborate with product engineering and security engineering teams to develop scalable automations.
  
  

Qualifications

• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure built on AWS.
• Proficient in database management and caching strategies.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.
• Experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Python and Terraform.
• 4+ years of SRE experience.
  
  

The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 to $240,000.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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