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Engineering Manager (Enterprise)

Perplexity· Platform & Infrastructure
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San Francisco$300k - $405kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Engineering Manager for Perplexity’s Enterprise Engineering Organization, leading a team focused on Enterprise Control Plane, Enterprise Data Plane, or Connector Marketplace and Activation to help large organizations adopt AI at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for your team and guide architecture decisions across the enterprise platform.
  • Build the foundational systems that enable large organizations to deploy Perplexity broadly and confidently.
  • Shape roadmaps with product and design, applying strong technical judgment and product intuition.
  • Set a high bar for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance. Lead incident response and ensure platform changes and connector migrations are rolled out safely.
  • Partner with engineering teams across the company to ensure the platforms we build are extensible and easy to adopt.
  • Represent engineering in strategic enterprise customer conversations, partnering with sales and customer success to understand requirements and remove barriers to adoption.
  • Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team. Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.
  • Work with Perplexity’s co-founders to deliver enterprise engineering priorities.

Qualifications

  • Strong technical judgment and experience building enterprise platforms or products, with an understanding of the reliability, security, and usability requirements of enterprise customers.
  • Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas: Enterprise control plane (identity and access management, SSO/SCIM, role-based access, key management, admin APIs, policy enforcement, audit logging, data governance, or compliance and residency requirements for regulated industries), Enterprise data plane (connector and integration platforms, authentication, source-system permissions, data synchronization, and reliability at scale; or semantic data layers and knowledge platforms), or Connector marketplace and activation (discovery, integration onboarding, marketplace product UX, or technology partner ecosystems).
  • Ability to deliver in a fast-moving environment while balancing customer needs, technical quality, and long-term maintainability.
  • Detail-oriented and quality-focused - our customers run critical workflows on Perplexity, and our product needs to stay robust and reliable.
  • Ability to translate enterprise customer needs into clear technical priorities and communicate tradeoffs effectively.
  • Experience building and managing high-performing engineering teams, with a strong management practice grounded in clear feedback, effective 1:1s, career development, and recruiting and retaining high-caliber talent.
  • Ability to lead parallel technical initiatives, align strong technical perspectives, and make clear prioritization and tradeoff decisions.
  • Experience with AI/ML products, enterprise AI adoption, or scaling enterprise platforms at a startup is a plus.
  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 4 of those years as an engineering manager.

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipEnterprise platform development

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 tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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