Monetization Platform Engineer — Billing & Revenue

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Monetization Engineer in San Francisco to design and manage their billing platform. The role involves leading the billing and monetization systems that support their products, optimizing for reliability and user experience. Candidates should have at least 4 years of software engineering experience, strong skills in Python, and familiarity with billing systems like Stripe. Competitive compensation ranges from $220K to $405K. Join us to help transform AI into accessible products.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building or scaling billing, payments, subscription, or monetization systems.
• Strong backend engineering skills and complex distributed systems reasoning.
• Proven track record of shipping features ahead of schedule.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and development of the billing platform and monetization systems.
• Implement and launch billing API abstractions for product teams.
• Build and operate the subscription and usage-based billing systems.
• Ensure reliability with proactive monitoring and alerting.

Skills

Software engineering

Billing systems

Backend development in Python

Database management with PostgreSQL

Cross-functional collaboration

Stripe API experience

Tools

Stripe

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a Monetization Engineer in San Francisco to design and manage their billing platform. The role involves leading the billing and monetization systems that support their products, optimizing for reliability and user experience. Candidates should have at least 4 years of software engineering experience, strong skills in Python, and familiarity with billing systems like Stripe. Competitive compensation ranges from $220K to $405K. Join us to help transform AI into accessible products.