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

Details

The Enterprise Trust & Governance team builds the control plane that enables large organizations to deploy Perplexity broadly and with confidence. The role focuses on product and platform engineering with end-to-end ownership, from architecture and policy models through the customer experiences used by administrators and security teams.

The scope includes identity and provisioning, fine-grained role-based access across connectors, tool actions, and models, customer-managed encryption keys, admin APIs, audit logs, and policy and usage controls.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise identity and provisioning, including SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, WorkOS integrations, and support for identity providers such as Okta and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Build a permissions platform with fine-grained roles and permissions for connectors, tool actions, models, and model effort levels, enforced consistently across products and agent workflows.
• Design and ship secure, well-documented admin APIs for audit logs, members, groups, roles, and settings.
• Build policy controls for model and feature availability, staged rollouts, model deprecations, usage and spend limits, alerts, and cost-center allocation.
• Build admin-facing analytics for adoption, usage, spend, and policy enforcement.
• Deliver audit logs and change notifications to help administrators investigate activity, track configuration changes, and support compliance.
• Set the technical bar for authorization correctness and reliability, with fast, consistent, explainable permission checks, well-defined failure behavior, and strong tenant isolation.
• Partner with Product, Design, Security, Sales, and Customer Success to translate complex enterprise requirements into reusable platform capabilities and intuitive admin experiences.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex backend systems from design through production operation.
• Strong system design skills, including experience building reliable, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms with clear security and isolation boundaries.
• Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas:
  • Enterprise identity and provisioning, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and SCIM.
  • Permissions platforms, fine-grained authorization, and policy enforcement.
  • Encryption, customer-managed keys, and key lifecycle management.
  • Enterprise admin platforms, audit infrastructure, or usage and spend analytics.
• Experience building or integrating enterprise identity and access systems, including WorkOS, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID.
• Sound technical judgment in security-sensitive systems, balancing threat models, authorization correctness, and failure behavior with usability and delivery speed.
• 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.

Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every qualification. Demonstrated impact, deep ownership, and the initiative to turn ambiguity into results are valued.

Benefits

• U.S. full-time employees receive benefits including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
• Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence.
• The listed USD salary range applies only to U.S.-based positions. International salaries are set based on the local market. Final offers depend on factors including experience and expertise.