Engineering Manager (API Platform)

What this role involves

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager for its API Platform team. The role involves leading a team to design, build, and scale APIs for frontier AI capabilities. Responsibilities include technical leadership, team mentorship, and ensuring reliable, high-performance APIs.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• go
• rust
• api design
• schema evolution
• api versioning
• idempotency
• authentication patterns
• rate limiting
• performance tuning
• ai apis
• latency tuning
• streaming
• model orchestration
• distributed systems
• agent orchestration
• code quality
• ai evaluation
• testing
• customer empathy
• product sense
• organizational skills
• team management

Requirements

• Level: manager

From the employer’s posting

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-fir…