Member of Technical Staff (Search Core DevOps Engineer)

• Perplexity is seeking a DevOps engineer 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, tooling and systems that support our Search feature
• Our backend stack includes Python, Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes - built alongside dedicated in-house AI and search interfaces
• Design and implement highly available, high-performance, and scalable systems
• Design and implement various tools for other engineers helping them with their day to day job
• Design and implement CI/CD and other workflows to enhance stability, robustness and speed of iteration
• Maintain and optimize key-value and relational databases
• Scale and load balance web server backends to meet rapidly changing needs
• 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

Preferred experience

• The ideal candidate should have experience in designing highly scalable infrastructure, building systems, tools and performing testing, monitoring, and maintenance
• Experience with Python and Terraform
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• 3+ years of DevOps/SRE/System Administration experience
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure built on AWS
• Proficient in database management and caching strategies
• Experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze, debug, and resolve complex technical issues