Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

The role

The Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates foundational cloud primitives and deployment models. This person will own the roadmap for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management and design cloud networking fabric, compute platforms, and secure deployment topologies.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap and technical strategy for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management.
• Design and operate Perplexity’s cloud networking fabric.
• Architect and scale compute platforms including Kubernetes/EKS and mixed CPU/GPU fleets.
• Build and maintain secure, isolated deployment topologies for multi-tenant, single-tenant, and customer-owned cloud environments.
• Implement and evolve multi-region strategies for availability, failover, and data locality.
• Partner with security to deliver enterprise controls such as BYOK/KMS integrations and network isolation.
• Develop automation, tooling, and runbooks for day-2 operations.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Strong background with Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with cloud networking and peering.
• Experience building or operating secure, isolated environments for enterprise customers.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Strong software engineering skills in at least one of Python, Go, or Rust.
• Strong debugging and incident management skills across distributed systems.
• 7+ years of industry experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure.

About the company

Perplexity's Cloud Infrastructure team owns the foundational cloud primitives and deployment models that power Perplexity's products.