Software Engineer (Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise Trust & Governance)

Join our Enterprise Trust & Governance team as a Software Engineer. In this role, you will have end-to-end ownership of building the control plane that enables large organizations to deploy Perplexity confidently. You will work across product and infrastructure teams to turn complex enterprise requirements into reusable primitives and intuitive controls. Your responsibilities will include owning enterprise identity and provisioning, building the permissions platform, designing and shipping secure admin APIs, and delivering audit logs and change notifications. You will also partner with various teams to translate complex enterprise requirements into reusable platform capabilities and intuitive admin experiences.

• Posséder une expertise approfondie dans la conception et la mise en œuvre de systèmes d'identité et d'accès d'entreprise, y compris les intégrations avec des plateformes telles que WorkOS, Okta ou Microsoft Entra ID.
• Diriger des initiatives ambiguës et inter-équipes, de l'architecture à l'adoption, en définissant la direction technique pour les plateformes partagées et en améliorant la qualité de l'ingénierie par le mentorat.
• Construire et maintenir des systèmes de permissions, d'autorisation fine et d'application des politiques, en veillant à leur cohérence à travers les produits et les flux de travail des agents.

• Experience building or integrating enterprise identity and access systems, including platforms such as WorkOS, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID
• If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification
• Enterprise identity and provisioning, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and SCIM
• Encryption, customer-managed keys, and key lifecycle management
• Enterprise admin platforms, audit infrastructure, or usage and spend analytics
• A track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from architecture through adoption, setting technical direction for shared platforms, and raising engineering quality through mentorship
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following:
• Permissions platforms, fine-grained authorization, and policy enforcement
• Strong system design skills, including building reliable, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms with clear security and isolation boundaries
• Sound technical judgment in security-sensitive systems, balancing threat models, authorization correctness, and failure behavior with usability and delivery speed
• 4+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex backend systems from design through production operation
• Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes