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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge Platform)

Perplexity· Platform & Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (Palo Alto), Hybrid (London), Hybrid (Seattle), Hybrid (New York City)$220k - $405kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Product and platform engineering role responsible for designing and shipping the data and action layer that connects Perplexity's agents to enterprise systems, including connector infrastructure, semantic models, marketplace experiences, and enterprise-aware capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Own the connector runtime that registers, hosts, and executes native connectors, hosted MCP servers, and CLI-backed tools through a consistent agent-facing interface.
  • Build the semantic and knowledge layer, including tool and entity schemas, capability metadata, relationships, organization-specific terminology, and reusable corrections, while preserving provenance and source-system permissions.
  • Design discovery, search, and recommendation systems that help agents find relevant tools and context and help users and organizations choose integrations that fit their work.
  • Build the marketplace and activation experience end to end, from browsing and recommendations to installation, configuration, admin enablement, and ongoing adoption.
  • Make connector execution reliable and observable, with structured results, retries, idempotency, pagination, rate-limit handling, and recovery from partial failures. Own reliability targets, production monitoring, and incident response.
  • Implement connector authentication, credential isolation, and permission enforcement, partnering with Trust & Governance, Security, and Backend Platform on shared policies and tenant boundaries.
  • Build the onboarding and publishing path for internal teams and external partners, including schemas, test fixtures, validation, review, and versioning.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex backend systems from design through production operation.
  • Strong system design skills, including building reliable, scalable platforms that integrate heterogeneous APIs and services with clear security and isolation boundaries.
  • Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Deep expertise in at least one of the following: Connector runtimes, API platforms, or MCP servers; Schema design, semantic modeling, or knowledge systems; Search, ranking, recommendation, or tool discovery; Marketplaces, developer platforms, or enterprise onboarding and activation experiences.
  • Ability to work across backend infrastructure and customer-facing product experiences, translating complex integration requirements into clear APIs, developer tools, and intuitive workflows.
  • Sound technical judgment in security-sensitive, distributed systems, balancing credential isolation, permission correctness, and failure behavior with performance, usability, and delivery speed.
  • A track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from architecture through adoption, setting technical direction for shared platforms, and raising engineering quality through mentorship.

Skills

Required:Backend software engineeringSystem designPython, Go, or RustAWS and Kubernetes

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International Benefits tailored to region of residence.
  • USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries set based on local market.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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