# Engineering Manager, Security

ABOUT THE ROLE Perplexity's security team protects products used by millions of people and thousands of enterprises, including AI agents that browse the web, run code, and act in customer systems. The team is small, senior, and builds most of what it uses: our own detections, agents that triage and investigate alerts around the clock, continuous offensive testing, and secure-by-default platforms for the rest of engineering. We're also turning what we've built into cybersecurity products for customers, so the same team that defends Perplexity builds what we ship. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow Security Engineering, including the engineers building our cybersecurity products. You'll own the team's execution and people, set the technical direction for how we defend our infrastructure, products, and corporate environment, and lead the product engineering work that brings those systems to customers. You'll stay close enough to the work to run an incident or review a design yourself. You'll report to Perplexity's head of security and work with engineering, infrastructure, IT, product, legal, and our co-founders. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead, hire, and grow a team of s

- **Id**: 4220725
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/perplexity-ai-engineering-manager-security>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, London, United Kingdom, Belgrade, Serbia, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US, GB, RS
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T02:54:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T04:46:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4370
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: LLM & Generative AI, Search Engines, Information Security, Foundation Models

## Company

- **Id**: 3
- **Name**: Perplexity AI
- **Domain**: perplexity.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/perplexity>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 36
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.722
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 61
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 300000
- **Max**: 405000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 405000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Perplexity** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country
- **Serbia** — Iso: RS; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T04:46:32Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 18; Filings 12m: 18

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 61
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T05:57:52Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 405000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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