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Engineering Manager (API Platform)

Perplexity API PlatformPerplexity 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 develop

Company

Perplexity

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-15T02:58:25.382+00:00

Perplexity is hiring an engineering manager to lead the API Platform team in San Francisco, on-site and full-time. The team designs, builds and runs the APIs that give developers and agents programmatic access to Perplexity's AI systems, spanning distributed systems, performance work and agent orchestration. The role covers technical and team leadership, reliability and code quality, hiring and mentorship, and cross-team work on new capabilities. The posting asks for Python proficiency, at least eight years in engineering including three managing, and a strong grasp of high-traffic API design.