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Engineering Manager (API Platform)

Perplexity· API Platform
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San Francisco$300k - $405kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Leadership role overseeing the API Platform engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and scaling mission-critical APIs and driving reliability, performance, and growth.

Responsibilities

  • Provide both technical and team leadership across multiple layers of our rapidly growing API business.
  • Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.
  • Continually reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow (and the architectures to serve those needs), while faithfully serving the customer workloads of today.
  • Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team.
  • 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.
  • Track and ensure progress toward top-line business goals, in close coordination with engineering and business executives.

Qualifications

  • Entrepreneurial attitude; able and eager to run more than just engineering.
  • 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.
  • Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike.
  • 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.
  • Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent.
  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years as an engineering manager.

Skills

Required:PythonAPI design
Nice to have:AI APIs

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International Benefits: Full-time employees outside the U.S. enjoy a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence.
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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