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Perplexity AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer) to join the Enterprise Trust & Governance team. This is a product and platform engineering role with end-to-end ownership of the control plane that enables large organizations to deploy Perplexity's AI answer engine and agents with confidence and precise administrative control.
You will own the design and implementation of enterprise identity and provisioning systems, including SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, and integrations with identity providers like Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. You'll build a comprehensive permissions platform with fine-grained role-based access controls across connectors, tool actions, and models, enforced consistently across all products and agent workflows.
Key responsibilities include designing and shipping secure admin APIs for audit logs, members, groups, roles, and settings; building policy controls for model and feature availability, staged rollouts, usage and spend limits, and cost-center allocation; and delivering admin-facing analytics for adoption, usage, spend, and policy enforcement. You'll establish the technical bar for authorization correctness and reliability, ensuring fast, consistent, explainable permission checks with well-defined failure behavior and strong tenant isolation.
You'll partner closely with Product, Design, Security, Sales, and Customer Success teams to translate complex enterprise requirements into reusable platform capabilities and intuitive administrator experiences. The scope spans identity and provisioning, fine-grained access control, customer-managed encryption keys, audit logs, and usage controls—all critical to helping enterprises move from pilots to company-wide rollouts.
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 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, and hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes
- Deep expertise in at least one of: enterprise identity and provisioning (OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM); permissions platforms and fine-grained authorization; encryption and customer-managed keys; or enterprise admin platforms and audit infrastructure
- Experience building or integrating enterprise identity and access systems, including platforms such as 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
- Track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from architecture through adoption, setting technical direction for shared platforms, and raising engineering quality through mentorship
About Perplexity AI
AI / Data / Infrastructure — AI answer engine and search product for consumers and enterprises.
