Perplexity
Technology
EngineeringManager(APIPlatform)
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Manager candidates.
“Engineering Manager (API Platform) at Perplexity. Skills: API Platform, Distributed systems, AI infrastructure. Provide technical leadership. Provide team leadership”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale to meet growth
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of engineering experience, 3+ years as an engineering manager, Proficiency in Python, Manage engineering teams, Recruit engineering talent, Grow engineering talent, Retain engineering talent, Develop rigorous interview pipelines, Work closely with recruiting, Source candidates
Nice to Have
Proficiency in Go, Proficiency in Rust, Experience with modern AI APIs, Customer empathy, Product sense
What You'll Do.
Provide technical leadership
Provide team leadership
Design mission-critical APIs
Build mission-critical APIs
Operate mission-critical APIs
Reimagine customer needs
Serve customer workloads
Drive product reliability
Develop rigorous interview pipelines
Work closely with recruiting
Collaborate across teams
Incorporate novel capabilities
Improve existing capabilities
Track progress toward business goals
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate across teams; Coordinate with executives
Process & Methodology
Prioritization decisions
Full Job Description
PERPLEXITY API PLATFORM Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users. The Perplexity API Platform brings our technology to the world's most discerning developers. From exabyte-scale knowledge indexes to codegen-first agent runtimes, the building blocks behind Perplexity's applications are some of the most battle-tested AI systems in the industry. We believe these same building blocks can and should power the aspirations of builders everywhere. It's one thing to solve planet-scale retrieval, long-horizon orchestration, and other foundational AI challenges within a single product ecosystem. The true measure of success is to turn those solutions into elegant APIs that delight developers and agents alike. Our API Platform delivers frontier intelligence to thousands of customers: startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between. We've achieved incredible scale, yet we're just getting started. Join us to build tools for curious minds. ABOUT THIS 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. You and your team will work on an eclectic portfolio spanning distributed systems, performance optimization, agent orchestration, and frontier topics that often change with each passing month. Throughout this work, you'll prioritize great developer and agent experience alike. 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.). This role is ideal for seaso
Applying for this Engineering Manager (API Platform) role?
Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.
How to Apply on Ashby
- Ashby is a fast modern ATS — most applications take under 3 minutes.
- The resume parser is strong; verify parsed experience dates and job titles.
- Custom screening questions are often scored algorithmically — answer completely.
- Location field affects geo-based screening; use your actual metro area.
ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED
What do employees actually say about Perplexity?
Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.