Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)
Perplexity10 months ago
Remote, United States +3 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain security software and automation for alert enrichment, triage workflows, investigation tooling, detection, and response.
- Implement and enhance internal AI agents and security bots for monitoring, investigations, reporting, and security operations.
- Develop systems supporting bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure intake, triage, prioritization, and remediation tracking.
- Partner with product and engineering teams on threat modeling, mitigations, and secure design guardrails.
- Contribute secure-by-default libraries, services, and patterns.
- Integrate security signals from cloud, endpoints, SaaS, and applications into pipelines and data models for detection and analysis.
- Automate incident response, containment, and remediation workflows.
- Review designs and code with security and software engineers and improve security tooling and platforms.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with substantial security-tooling or automation experience, or as a security engineer with strong software development responsibilities.
- Proficiency in at least one major programming language, such as Python, Go, or TypeScript, with experience building production services, CLIs, or internal tools.
- Experience integrating logging pipelines, SIEMs, EDR systems, cloud APIs, or identity platforms.
- Practical experience with threat modeling, secure design, or application security reviews.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and modern SaaS environments.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally, own projects end-to-end, and deliver pragmatic, high-impact improvements.
- Experience with bug bounty or vulnerability management programs is a plus.
- Experience designing or improving AI-powered agents or security-operations automation is a bonus.
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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.