Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
About the role
Own production at scale. Run the compute, networking, and storage foundation behind Perplexity's consumer, Computer, API, and enterprise products, and own its availability, latency, and cost. Run our Kubernetes fleet. Operate and upgrade the EKS clusters that host web services, search, datastores, and secure sandboxes. Tune scheduling, autoscaling, node lifecycle, DNS, and service networking so clusters stay healthy under bursty, fast-growing load. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Multi-region active-active or failover architectures, and disaster-recovery programs with real recovery targets
- Proxies, service meshes, and kernel-level networking: Envoy, Istio, Cilium, or eBPF
- GitOps and progressive delivery: Argo CD, Flux, or similar
- Enterprise and compliance environments: single-tenant or BYOC deployments, KMS/BYOK, SOC 2 or similar controls
- Running stateful systems in production: Postgres, Redis, or search engines like Vespa or Elasticsearch
- Multi-cloud or neocloud operations (GCP, CoreWeave, or similar)
More about this role
Perplexity serves hundreds of millions of queries a month. Every answer, every Perplexity Computer task, and every enterprise deployment runs on production infrastructure owned by the Cloud Infrastructure team: a fleet of Kubernetes clusters across a multi-account AWS estate, private networks that reach hyperscalers and the neoclouds serving our models, and the storage underneath our user data and agentic workloads. We're looking for SREs who treat reliability as a software problem. You'll own compute, networking, and storage at scale and keep production stable while everything built on top of it is changing fast.
Own production at scale. Run the compute, networking, and storage foundation behind Perplexity's consumer, Computer, API, and enterprise products, and own its availability, latency, and cost.
Run our Kubernetes fleet. Operate and upgrade the EKS clusters that host web services, search, datastores, and secure sandboxes. Tune scheduling, autoscaling, node lifecycle, DNS, and service networking so clusters stay healthy under bursty, fast-growing load.
Engineer the network. Design and operate VPC architectures, Transit Gateway and PrivateLink connectivity, load balancing,...
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