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Engineering Manager (API Platform)

Perplexity

AI · 8 roles open

  • Location: San Francisco
  • Pay: $300k–$405k a year
  • Experience: 8+ yrs
  • Posted: Posted
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About the role

The API Platform team designs, builds, and scales programmatic interfaces to Perplexity's core AI technology. The engineering manager leads this team, focusing on distributed systems, performance, and agent orchestration. This involves defining technical strategy and ensuring a great developer experience for API users.

Our summary of the posting; the original is on the Perplexity careers page.

What the posting requires

Required
  • Python
  • API design
  • Schema evolution
  • Idempotency
  • Authentication
  • Rate limiting
  • Performance tuning
  • High-traffic
  • Versioning
Preferred
  • Go
  • Rust
  • AI APIs
  • Latency tuning
  • Streaming
  • Model orchestration

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