Member of Technical Staff (Search Core DevOps Engineer)
At a glance
Senior DevOps & Release role at Perplexity. Belgrade · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Build and scale the infrastructure and systems behind Search, focusing on availability and performance
- Create tools and delivery workflows that help engineers work efficiently and make changes more stable
- Tune relational and key-value databases, and adjust web-server capacity and traffic distribution as demand changes
- Track system health, resolve reliability or performance problems, and build alerts and dashboards for visibility
What you bring
- At least three years working in DevOps, SRE or system administration
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, plus Python and Terraform
- You can manage databases and caching, and have worked with Docker, Kubernetes and orchestration tools
Who this fits
This senior role suits someone who can build and operate infrastructure for a search feature while collaborating with other engineers. The position is based in Belgrade, Serbia.
From the employer
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.
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