Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer Connector Platform
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
Funding history
About Perplexity
Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build the connector runtime and semantic layer for integrations. You will design tool-discovery and selection surfaces, make agent loops resilient, and define authentication, authorization, and credential-isolation patterns. You will create connector onboarding systems and evaluation suites, establish reliability standards, and define interfaces for agent capabilities.
Requirements
- Production backend-system experience
- System design
- API integration
- Gateway or platform systems
- Python, Go, or Rust
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- OAuth
- Authorization protocols
- API or connector development
- MCP-server development
- Schema modeling
- Semantic modeling
- LLM-agent evaluation
- Credential isolation
Responsibilities
- Own the design and implementation of the connector runtime
- Build and extend tool and entity schemas, capability metadata, relationship modeling, and knowledge mechanisms
- Design tool-discovery and tool-selection surfaces
- Improve agent-loop resilience through structured results, retries, idempotency, pagination, rate-limit handling, and observability
- Define connector authentication, authorization, and credential-isolation patterns
- Build connector onboarding schemas, fixtures, and evaluation suites
- Establish connector reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident-response standards
- Define connector interfaces and integration patterns
Benefits
- Equity
- Health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Fitness account
- Commuter account
- Dependent care account
- Regional benefits program for full-time international employees