Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)

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9 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.
Perplexity

About Perplexity

201-500 employees

The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.