Search Core DevOps Engineer – Member of Technical Staff

About the role

Perplexity is seeking a DevOps engineer to join its small team and revolutionize how people search and interact with the internet. You will lead the design, implementation, and scaling of the infrastructure, tooling, and systems that power the Search feature.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, high‑performance, and scalable systems.
• Build tools that help engineers with their day‑to‑day tasks.
• Create CI/CD pipelines and workflows to improve stability, robustness, and iteration speed.
• Maintain and optimise key‑value and relational databases.
• Scale and load‑balance web server back‑ends to meet rapidly changing demand.
• 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.

Required profile

• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure built on AWS.
• 3+ years of DevOps/SRE/System Administration experience.
• Excellent problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyse, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.

Required skills

• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Terraform