# Engineering Manager (API Platform) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $405K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/29625b7a-5470-463b-8446-21fac84e80b9
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-engineering-manager-api-platform/

## About the role

Perplexity is seeking a strong technical leader to steer the API Platform engineering team through a rapid period of growth. Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the world around them. 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: API Platform