Perplexity

Engineering Manager (API Platform)

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago

PythonDistributed SystemsPlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentAI OrchestrationLeadershipMentoringOrganizational Skills

About the role

Perplexity is seeking a strong technical leader to steer the API Platform engineering team through a rapid period of growth.
Week after week, we observe increasing demand for programmatic interfaces to that technology.
The API Platform engineering team is charged with designing, implementing, and scaling these interfaces.

Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader 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.
Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team; develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.

Strong understanding of high-traffic API design: schema evolution & versioning, idempotency, authentication patterns, rate limiting, and performance tuning.
Entrepreneurial attitude
able and eager to run more than just engineering.
Proficiency in Python (bonus points for Go and/or Rust).
Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike.

Experience with modern AI APIs (including latency tuning, streaming, model orchestration, emerging technical standards) is a strong plus.
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.

startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between.
Join us to build tools for curious minds.

Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the world around them.
You'll also define technical strategy for how we scale to meet compounding growth exponentials (number of customers, agents per customer, compute/retrieval per agent, etc.).
Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.

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