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PerplexityPerplexitySan Francisco, CA

Engineering Manager

Lead the API Platform engineering team, designing and scaling mission-critical APIs that deliver frontier AI capabilities to developers and agents. Drive technical strategy, hiring, and cross-team collaboration.

300k – 405k/yr
On-site8+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide both technical and team leadership across multiple layers of our rapidly growing API business.
  • Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.
  • Continually reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow (and the architectures to serve those needs), while faithfully serving the customer workloads of today.
  • Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team.
  • Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team; develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.
  • Collaborate across teams to incorporate novel frontier capabilities into the API Platform and improve existing capabilities for API customer needs.
  • Track and ensure progress toward top-line business goals, in close coordination with engineering and business executives.

Qualifications

  • Entrepreneurial attitude; able and eager to run more than just engineering.
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus points for Go and/or Rust).
  • Strong understanding of high-traffic API design: schema evolution & versioning, idempotency, authentication patterns, rate limiting, and performance tuning.
  • Experience with modern AI APIs (including latency tuning, streaming, model orchestration, emerging technical standards) is a strong plus.
  • Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike.
  • Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects; ability to guide highly-opinionated teams in making sound tradeoffs and prioritization decisions is critical.
  • Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent.
  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years as an engineering manager.

Skills

PythonGoRustAPI DesignSchema EvolutionIdempotencyAuthenticationRate LimitingPerformance TuningLatency TuningStreamingModel Orchestration
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