Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance)
Perplexity23 days ago
Toronto, Canada +4 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own enterprise identity and provisioning, including SSO, SCIM, WorkOS integrations, and identity-provider support.
- Build fine-grained permissions and authorization for connectors, tool actions, models, and model effort levels across products and agent workflows.
- Design and ship secure, documented admin APIs for audit logs, members, groups, roles, and settings.
- Build policy controls for model and feature availability, staged rollouts, 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 support activity investigation, configuration tracking, and compliance.
- Set technical standards for authorization correctness, reliability, explainable permission checks, failure behavior, and tenant isolation.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that turn complex enterprise requirements into reusable platform capabilities and intuitive admin experiences.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience owning complex backend systems through design and production operation.
- Strong system design 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, plus hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
- Deep expertise in at least one area including enterprise identity and provisioning, permissions and policy enforcement, encryption and customer-managed keys, or enterprise admin, audit, or usage analytics platforms.
- Experience building or integrating enterprise identity and access systems such as WorkOS, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID.
- Sound technical judgment for security-sensitive systems, including threat modeling, authorization correctness, failure behavior, usability, and delivery speed.
- Track record of leading ambiguous cross-team initiatives from architecture through adoption, setting technical direction for shared platforms, and mentoring engineers.
- Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every qualification; demonstrated impact, deep ownership, and initiative are valued.
About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.