Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Crawler)

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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,…