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Perplexity

Platform Engineering Manager

Perplexity, San Francisco

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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gill, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, Nvidia, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.
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.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries

    Software Development

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