Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products)
Perplexity2 days ago
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build zero-to-one cybersecurity products across application security, penetration testing, offensive security, cloud security, and detection and response.
- Develop agents that review code, identify vulnerabilities, test applications and infrastructure, assess cloud configurations, investigate threats, and recommend or apply fixes.
- Build multi-tenant services, data pipelines, secure execution environments, and integrations with customer security and developer systems.
- Deliver customer-facing APIs, dashboards, onboarding experiences, and workflows.
- Ensure strong tenant isolation, least privilege, secure handling of customer data and secrets, and controls for agents operating in customer environments.
- Define and improve quality measurements including finding accuracy, false-positive rate, exploitability, time to fix, and cost.
- Work directly with design partners and customers to prioritize security products and ship improvements quickly.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience as a software engineer building production systems, including meaningful experience with security products, security data platforms, or software-heavy security engineering.
- Proficiency in at least one major programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or Rust, with experience owning production services end to end.
- Hands-on depth in at least one security domain, including application security, penetration testing, offensive security, cloud security, or detection and response.
- Experience integrating source control, CI/CD, cloud provider APIs, identity providers, scanners, SIEMs, or other security and developer systems.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and secure multi-tenant SaaS.
- Ability to work directly with customers and deliver pragmatic improvements in an ambiguous, early-stage product area.
- Experience building LLM-powered agents, evaluation frameworks, or tool-using automation for security or other high-stakes domains is a bonus.
- Experience at a security product company or on an internal security platform at scale is a bonus.
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.