San Francisco; New York City On-site Full-time USD 220,000 – 405,000 / year

Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization)

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop the core billing infrastructure supporting all paid products and services.
  • Lead the full lifecycle of monetization features, from defining problems to launching solutions, including APIs for flexible pricing and product experimentation.
  • Own the development and operation of subscription management, invoicing, and usage-based billing systems serving millions of users.
  • Improve system reliability with tiered service level objectives, proactive monitoring, and early detection of revenue-impacting issues.
  • Collaborate with Finance, Data Science, Growth, Security, Support, and business teams to ensure billing accuracy, auditability, compliance, and global payment optimization.
  • Create internal tools that enable Finance and Support teams to efficiently troubleshoot and resolve billing-related issues.

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid or remote options available

Team

Part of the engineering team focused on monetization and platform infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own the billing platform and monetization systems that power Computer and every paid experience across Perplexity.
  • Lead features end-to-end, from problem definition through technical design, implementation, and launch, including the billing API abstractions that let product teams ship new SKUs, pricing models, and monetization experiments with minimal friction.
  • Build and operate the subscription, invoicing, and usage-based billing systems that serve millions of users across consumer and enterprise plans.
  • Hill-climb on reliability: tiered SLOs organized by customer impact, proactive monitoring, and alerting to catch revenue-affecting issues before customers do.
  • Partner closely with Finance, Data Science, Growth, Security, Support, and go-to-market teams to keep billing data accurate, auditable, and compliant, and to expand payment method coverage and optimize authorization rates globally.
  • Build internal tooling that empowers Support and Finance to diagnose and resolve billing issues quickly.

Available for qualified candidates

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Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
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Department Product Engineering
Category other
Posted 2 months ago