Perplexity · 10 hours ago
Senior/Staff Engineer - Reliability (SRE) | Belgrade, Berlin, London, NYC, SF
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $385K/yr
7+ years expPerplexity is seeking a Senior or Staff level Reliability Engineer (SRE) 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 and systems that support our web and mobile products.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ChatbotMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSearch Engine
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
Qualification
Required
Strong experience with cloud infrastructure built on AWS
Proficient in database management and caching strategies
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze, debug, and resolve complex technical issues
Experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Experience with Python and Terraform
7+ years of industry experience
Company
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine designed to provide accurate, real-time responses to user queries.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.48BKey Investors
Cristiano RonaldoNuVenturesAccel
2025-12-05Undisclosed
2025-09-10Series Unknown· $200M
2025-08-15Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Aravind Srinivas
Cofounder, President, CEO
Denis Yarats
Co-Founder & CTO
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