Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance)Active$220K–$405K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

The Enterprise Trust & Governance team builds the control plane that lets the world’s largest organizations deploy Perplexity broadly and with confidence. Computer and our agents work across a growing share of our customers’ environments, tools, and models.

What you'll do

  • 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 the 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, helping organizations measure value and manage their deployments.

  • Deliver audit logs and change notifications that help administrators: investigate activity, track configuration changes, and support compliance.

What they're looking for

  • + 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 the following: 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 platforms such as WorkOS, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID.