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Engineering Manager (Security)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · London · Remote · Belgrade · New York City

Applied AIremotemanager$300k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Protects AI agents that browse the web, run code, and act in customer systems.
  • Turns internal detections and triage agents into cybersecurity products for customers
  • Leads small senior team defending products used by millions of people.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Hands-on security leader who thrives in fast-moving builds, coaches senior engineers, and stays close to incidents and design. Excited to link internal defense with customer-facing security products and drive AI-first automation.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience in security, with at least 3 years managing security or infrastructure teams
  • Deep hands-on background in at least two security domains such as detection and response, cloud, app/product security, offensive security or IAM
  • Experience leading incident response for serious incidents including investigation, containment and executive communication
  • Track record of hiring, coaching and retaining strong senior engineers with clear feedback and career development
  • Able to engage credibly on modern infrastructure design and code and explain risk to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience shipping software products to external customers and turning customer feedback into roadmap
  • Experience building security programs at a fast-growing company where you built more than you bought

Lab profile

About Perplexity AI

Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.

What they build

  • Perplexity AI answer engine
  • Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
  • Comet AI browser and desktop apps

Known for

  • Agentic AI and agent capabilities
  • Applied AI product engineering
  • Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
  • Multimodal AI and integrations

Key facts

  • Founded in 2022
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Serves millions of users daily
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