# Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $405K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply by: 2026-12-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Perplexity/5fe2b80d-9d59-42bb-90e6-9a0b78d7d403?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-site-reliability-engineer-cloud-infrastruct/

## 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)

Tags: Platform & Infrastructure

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-site-reliability-engineer-cloud-infrastruct/