Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization)

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a monetization engineer at Perplexity, you'll own the abstractions that let product teams ship new SKUs, run pricing experiments, and convert users into paying customers, without needing to understand billing internals.

• 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…
• 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…

What they're looking for

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Direct experience building or scaling billing, payments, subscription, or monetization systems.
• Deep familiarity with payment processors (Stripe, Square, etc.), including subscriptions, invoicing, disputes, refunds, and webhooks.
• Demonstrated experience and appetite for building in-house billing solutions that rival leading best-in-class buy options.
• Strong backend engineering skills in Python with the ability to reason about complex distributed systems.

Tech stack

• Python
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Docker
• React
• TypeScript