Senior/Staff Engineer - Reliability (SRE)

at Perplexity AI
📍 Belgrade, Serbia
📍 New York City, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States
USD 240,000-300,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Hybrid

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Docker @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Redis @ 4 Terraform @ 4 Python @ 4 AWS @ 7 Communication @ 4 PostgreSQL @ 4 SRE @ 4

Details

Perplexity is seeking a Senior or Staff level Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a small Platform & Infrastructure team to design, implement, and scale the infrastructure and systems that support web and mobile products.

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.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of industry 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.
  • Experience with Python and Terraform.
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Backend stack and technologies explicitly mentioned:

  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • DynamoDB
  • Redis
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and on-call practices

Compensation & Benefits

  • Cash compensation range for US-based employees: $240,000 to $300,000 (final offers determined by experience and other factors).
  • Equity: Equity may be part of the total compensation package.
  • Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents; includes a 401(k) plan.