Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer Security

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
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.

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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will build and operate security software, automation, internal AI agents, and investigation tools. You will support vulnerability-management workflows, integrate security signals into data pipelines, automate incident response, perform threat modeling, and contribute secure-by-default services and libraries.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software engineering or security engineering experience
  • Python, Go, TypeScript, or another major programming language
  • Experience building production services, CLIs, or internal tools
  • Experience integrating logging pipelines, SIEMs, EDR, cloud APIs, or identity platforms
  • Experience with threat modeling, secure design, or application security reviews
  • Familiarity with AWS and SaaS environments

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain detection and response software and automation
  • Implement internal AI agents and security bots
  • Develop systems supporting bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure workflows
  • Threat model new features and systems and propose mitigations
  • Contribute secure-by-default libraries, services, and patterns
  • Integrate cloud, endpoint, SaaS, and application security signals into pipelines and data models
  • Automate incident response, containment, and remediation
  • Review designs and code to improve security tooling and platforms

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter accounts
  • Dependent care accounts