Engineering Manager (API Platform)

Join Perplexity, a company dedicated to reshaping how people search, reason, and interact with the world. As an Engineering Manager for the API Platform, you will lead a rapidly growing team, design and implement mission-critical APIs, and drive product reliability and code quality. You will also oversee hiring and mentorship, collaborate across teams, and track progress toward business goals. Ideal candidates have 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years as an engineering manager, and a strong understanding of high-traffic API design.

• Provide both technical and team leadership across multiple layers of the API business, ensuring the design, implementation, and scaling of mission-critical APIs.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing 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.
• Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent
• 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
• Entrepreneurial attitude; able and eager to run more than just engineering
• 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
• 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years as an engineering manager
• Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike