Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products)
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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
San Francisco, United States
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
About the Role
You will build agent-driven cybersecurity products end to end, from security logic and agent workflows to integrations and customer-facing surfaces. You'll build agents that review code, test applications and assess cloud configurations, create multi-tenant backend systems, integrate with customer tools, define quality metrics, and work directly with design partners and customers.
Requirements
- 4+ years as a software engineer building production systems, with time on security products or security engineering
- Proficiency in a major language such as Python, Go, TypeScript or Rust and experience owning production services
- Hands-on depth in at least one security domain
- Experience integrating with source control, CI/CD, cloud provider APIs, identity providers, scanners or SIEMs
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and secure multi-tenant SaaS
- Comfortable working directly with customers in an ambiguous early-stage area
- Bonus: experience building LLM-powered agents or evaluation frameworks
- Bonus: experience at a security product company or on an internal security platform
Responsibilities
- Build security products from zero to one across application security, offensive security, cloud security, and detection and response
- Build agents that review code, find vulnerabilities, test systems, assess cloud configurations and investigate threats
- Build multi-tenant services, data pipelines and secure execution environments
- Build integrations with source control, CI/CD, cloud providers, identity providers, security tools, ticketing and chat
- Ship product surfaces including APIs, dashboards, onboarding and workflows
- Maintain strong tenant isolation, least privilege and safe handling of customer secrets and data
- Define quality metrics such as finding accuracy, false positive rate, exploitability, time to fix and cost
- Work directly with design partners and customers and help decide which problems to build for next
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Fitness account
- Commuter account
- Dependent care account
- Region-tailored benefits for employees outside the U.S.