Perplexity is looking for an engineering manager to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading the data engineering team.
Engineers at Perplexity design, create, and ship systems that power product experiences across a growing stack. As we connect Perplexity to more data sources, data at Perplexity is growing quickly both in volume and number of use cases. To scale, we are investing in a growing data engineering team that will be responsible for building reusable tools for instrumentation, ingestion, and retrieval.
Responsibilities
- Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product
- Set standards for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance
- Oversee onboarding and ensure code quality for a growing team
- Collaborate closely with data science and machine learning teams to create reusable data sources
- Work closely with infrastructure, full-stack, and frontend teams to instrument logging and build reusable tooling
- 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 working with multiple small teams of engineers
- Experience leveraging the right combination of open source and in-house solutions
- Familiarity with AI/ML capabilities and limitations
- 8+ years of engineering experience
- 4+ years of engineering management experience
Nice to Have
- Experience with building data platforms for real-time indexing and retrieval
- Experience with AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake
Our cash compensation range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000.
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.
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 is part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.
