Engineering Manager - Commerce

Details

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team building the foundation for how commerce works in an AI-native world. The Commerce team will own the full commerce stack: payments infrastructure, agentic commerce capabilities, and emerging monetization opportunities.

You will lead, grow, and support a team solving critical problems at the intersection of payments and AI, including billing infrastructure across consumer subscriptions, enterprise plans, API usage (Sonar), and premium features; architecting agentic commerce capabilities for in-conversation transactions; and designing reliable, compliant financial systems that scale with Perplexity's growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building payments, billing, and commerce systems.
• Own the technical roadmap for subscription infrastructure and payment integrations.
• Drive architecture decisions for agentic commerce—defining how Perplexity facilitates transactions within conversational experiences.
• Collaborate with product, finance, and external partners to ship new commerce capabilities and integrations.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on reliability, velocity, and technical excellence.

Requirements

• 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent.
• 5+ years of engineering experience on payments or commerce systems at consumer-scale traffic and reliability.
• Deep experience with Stripe, PayPal, or similar payment platforms.
• Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects; ability to guide senior engineers in making sound tradeoffs and prioritization decisions.
• Comfort with ambiguity; parts of this roadmap are still being written.
• Track record of shipping reliable, compliant financial systems.

Nice to Have

• Experience with building or integrating with 3rd parties to support modern payment rails (ACH, open banking, real-time payments) and multi-rail architectures.
• Experience supporting various monetization strategies including subscriptions, ads, and marketplace.
• Experience dealing with fraud prevention solutions and systems.

Benefits & Compensation Notes

• Base compensation range: $250,000 - $325,000 per year. Equity may be part of the total compensation package for Full Time, US-based applicants.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.
• Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.