Engineering Manager, Security (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, London, Belgrade, or New York City; remote option listed

Salary: $300K–$405K plus equity

Company

Perplexity builds AI products, including AI agents that browse the web, run code, and act in customer systems, and is developing cybersecurity products for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, and grow Security Engineering across detection and response, cloud and infrastructure security, application and product security, offensive security, identity, and corporate security.
• Set technical direction for agent-driven cybersecurity products and own delivery to design partners and enterprise customers.
• Connect Perplexity's internal security program with the cybersecurity products shipped to customers.
• Set the Security Engineering roadmap, balancing incident response, risk reduction, and long-term platform investments.
• Own incident response operations, including on-call health, escalation, coordination, and postmortems.
• Drive AI-first automation, partner with engineering and infrastructure leaders, represent Security Engineering in customer reviews and audits, and remain hands-on with designs, code, and investigations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience in security, including at least 3 years managing security or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Deep hands-on experience in at least two of detection and response, cloud security, application or product security, offensive security, and identity and access management.
• Experience leading serious security incident response, including investigation, containment, and communication with executives and customers.
• Strong management practice, including feedback, 1:1s, career development, and hiring and retaining senior engineers.
• Comfort with modern infrastructure including Kubernetes, cloud-native services, and CI/CD, with the ability to engage on design and code.
• Ability to make tradeoffs under pressure and explain risk to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience shipping software products to external customers, ideally security products, working with design partners, and incorporating customer feedback into roadmaps.
• Experience building security programs at a fast-growing company, including building rather than only buying security capabilities.

Nice to have

• Experience securing AI/ML systems, LLM applications, or autonomous agents, or using AI to scale security operations.
• Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance programs from the engineering side.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, senior security team that builds much of its own tooling and systems.
• Close collaboration with engineering, infrastructure, IT, product, legal, co-founders, design partners, and enterprise customers.
• Hybrid work arrangement across the listed locations, with a remote option stated.
• Equity included in the compensation package.