Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance)

San Francisco. Posted 28 days ago

The role

This role builds the control plane for enterprise deployment and governance. You will shape architecture and policy models to provide administrators with identity, permissions, and usage controls.

What you will do

Own enterprise identity and provisioning including SSO, SCIM, and WorkOS integrations.
Build the permissions platform for connectors, tool actions, and models.
Design and ship secure admin APIs for audit logs, members, groups, roles, and settings.
Build policy controls for model availability, rollouts, usage, and spend limits.
Build admin-facing analytics for adoption, usage, spend, and policy enforcement.
Deliver audit logs and change notifications for administrators.
Set the technical bar for authorization correctness, reliability, and tenant isolation.
Partner with Product, Design, Security, Sales, and Customer Success to translate requirements into platform capabilities.

Required qualifications

4+ years of software engineering experience.
Track record of owning complex backend systems from design through production operation.
Strong system design skills for building reliable, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust.
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.
Deep expertise in at least one of the following: Enterprise identity and provisioning, Permissions platforms, Encryption and customer-managed keys, or Enterprise admin platforms and audit infrastructu
Experience building or integrating enterprise identity and access systems, including platforms such as WorkOS, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID.
Sound technical judgment in security-sensitive systems.
Track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from architecture through adoption.

About the company

Perplexity's Enterprise Trust & Governance team builds the control plane that lets the world’s largest organizations deploy Perplexity broadly and with confidence.