# Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Crawler) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: London
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-13
- Skills: Kubernetes
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Perplexity/190962f1-a955-4690-8025-6943dcbf063c

## Description

Keeping a crawler running is not the same as keeping it productive. Queues can grow while servers look healthy, and a small change can become a fleet-wide bottleneck. On Perplexity's Crawler team, you'll improve throughput, plan capacity, and build operational reliability through safer deployments, better observability, and durable fixes.



Responsibilities

 - Operate and optimize Kubernetes workloads and supporting infrastructure for crawler services, including fetching and rendering fleets.

 - Build and maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, with safe rollouts, validation, and fast rollback.

 - Define SLOs and build monitoring, alerting, and observability for availability, latency, throughput, and resource saturation.

 - Own capacity planning and resource efficiency; diagnose queue backlogs, network failures, and resource bottlenecks with service owners.

 - Participate in the team's on-call rotation, lead incident response, and turn blameless postmortems into durable reliability improvements.

 - Write production software to automate diagnosis and routine remediation, with validation and approval gates for high-impact actions.



Qualifications

 - 5+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure-heavy backend roles, with strong programming skills in Python, C++, Rust, or Go.

 - Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, production Kubernetes, infrastructure as code such as Terraform, and automated deployment workflows.

 - Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and load balancing.

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