Member of Technical Staff (Search Core DevOps Engineer)

Perplexity
Belgrade +2 more
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level DevOps engineers who can design and scale infrastructure for AI-driven search systems, with a focus on cloud expertise and collaboration in a small, high-impact team. The role is based in Belgrade, London, or Berlin and emphasizes hands-on system optimization and tool development.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 3+ years of DevOps experience and a track record in cloud infrastructure scaling
    — “3+ years of DevOps/SRE/System Administration experience”
  • Individuals who have built CI/CD workflows and monitoring tools for high-performance systems
    — “Design and implement CI/CD and other workflows to enhance stability, robustness and speed of iteration”
  • Professionals with expertise in container orchestration and database optimization
    — “Experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools”

Things to consider

  • The position demands ongoing maintenance and optimization of live systems for performance and reliability
    — “Monitor systems and applications, proactively identifying and resolving reliability, scalability, or performance issues”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in building tools that improve engineering productivity and system resilience
    — “Design and implement various tools for other engineers helping them with their day to day job”
  • Showcase your ability to optimize both key-value and relational databases in high-load environments
    — “Maintain and optimize key-value and relational databases”
  • Emphasize your hands-on experience with Python and Terraform in infrastructure automation
    — “Experience with Python and Terraform”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • designing and implementing scalable systems
  • maintaining and optimizing databases
  • developing monitoring tools
Typical background
DevOpsSRE

Skills & requirements

Required

Cloud InfrastructureDatabase ManagementCI/CDMonitoringLoad Balancing

Preferred

Search InfrastructureAI Model ServingCloud Infrastructure

About the role

Original posting from Perplexity via Ashby

Perplexity is seeking a DevOps engineer 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, tooling and systems that support our Search feature.

The ideal candidate should have experience in designing highly scalable infrastructure, building systems, tools and performing testing, monitoring, and maintenance. Our backend stack includes Python, Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes - built alongside dedicated in-house AI and search interfaces.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement highly available, high-performance, and scalable systems.
  • Design and implement various tools for other engineers helping them with their day to day job.
  • Design and implement CI/CD and other workflows to enhance stability, robustness and speed of iteration.
  • Maintain and optimize key-value and relational databases.
  • Scale and load balance web server backends to meet rapidly changing needs.
  • 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.

Qualifications:

  • 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.
  • 3+ years of DevOps/SRE/System Administration experience.

Source: Perplexity careers (Ashby)

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