Perplexity
Engineering Manager (Enterprise)
$300K–$405K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including at least 4 years as an engineering manager.
About the job
Leads an enterprise engineering team building platform capabilities that help large organizations adopt and operate Perplexity, including control-plane, data-plane, or connector marketplace systems.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and guide architecture, reliability, quality, and safe platform changes.
- Shape roadmaps with product and design, and translate enterprise customer needs into technical priorities.
- Hire, mentor, and manage the team; collaborate with internal teams and enterprise customers.
What they ask for
- Experience building enterprise platforms or products, with understanding of enterprise reliability, security, and usability needs.
- Domain expertise in at least one area: enterprise control plane, enterprise data plane, or connector marketplace and activation.
- Experience building and managing high-performing engineering teams.
- Ability to balance customer needs, technical quality, and maintainability; lead parallel initiatives and make prioritization decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML products, enterprise AI adoption, or scaling enterprise platforms at a startup.
Pay
$300K – $405K (base salary); Equity (amount not stated)
Tools
SSO, SCIM, BYOK, admin APIs, SOC 2, HIPAA
AI focus
Leads development of enterprise systems that enable organizations to adopt AI at scale, including permission-aware access to enterprise data for AI.
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