Engineering Manager (API Platform)

Perplexity
San Francisco
Full timeUSD 300,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Python","Go","Rust","APIs","Distributed systems"]

Lead the API Platform engineering team to design, build, and operate scalable, high-traffic APIs. Drive reliability, performance, and developer experience while mentoring engineers, shaping technical strategy, and aligning initiatives with business goals across a rapidly growing product area.

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Engineering Manager (API Platform)

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Job Summary

Lead the API Platform engineering team to design, build, and operate scalable, high-traffic APIs. Drive reliability, performance, and developer experience while mentoring engineers, shaping technical strategy, and aligning initiatives with business goals across a rapidly growing product area.
Location: San Francisco
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide both technical and team leadership across multiple layers of our rapidly growing API business.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 300,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Entrepreneurial attitude; able and eager to run more than just engineering.
Experience:AI
Skills:PythonGoRustAPIsDistributed systems
Tech Stack:PythonGoRustAPIsDistributed systems

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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