Platform Engineering Manager

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our high impact Platform engineering team – the backbone of reliability and scalability for everything we build.

Join us at the forefront of search innovation and help shape the future of how the world discovers information.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing platform
• Set standards for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance
• Oversee onboarding and ensure code quality for a growing team
• Collaborate closely with AI research, Search and Product teams
• Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates

Qualifications

• Ability to design reusable and scalable systems and processes
• Ability to constructively identify technical debt
• Ability to cleanly resolve engineering blockers
• Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects
• Experience leading foundational / platform teams
• Experience leveraging the right combination of open source and in-house solutions
• 8+ years of engineering experience
• 4+ years of engineering management experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with building and operation large scale infrastructure

Our cash compensation range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000.

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.

To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.