Description
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 $90,000 - $150,000.
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
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