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

Perplexity· Platform & Infrastructure
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San Francisco, London, Seattle, New York City, Toronto$220k - $405kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Product and platform engineering role focused on building and governing the control plane for enterprise deployments, including identity provisioning, fine-grained permissions, admin APIs, policy and usage controls, audit logs, and analytics to enable secure, scalable enterprise adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Own enterprise identity and provisioning, including SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, WorkOS integrations, and support for identity providers such as Okta and Microsoft Entra ID.
  • Build the permissions platform, with fine-grained roles and permissions for connectors, tool actions, models, and model effort levels, enforced consistently across products and agent workflows.
  • Design and ship secure, well-documented admin APIs for audit logs, members, groups, roles, and settings.
  • Build policy controls for model and feature availability, staged rollouts, model deprecations, usage and spend limits, alerts, and cost-center allocation.
  • Build admin-facing analytics for adoption, usage, spend, and policy enforcement, helping organizations measure value and manage their deployments.
  • Deliver audit logs and change notifications that help administrators investigate activity, track configuration changes, and support compliance.
  • Set the technical bar for authorization correctness and reliability, with fast, consistent, explainable permission checks, well-defined failure behavior, and strong tenant isolation.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Security, Sales, and Customer Success to translate complex enterprise requirements into reusable platform capabilities and intuitive admin experiences.

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, multi-tenant SaaS platforms 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:
  • - Enterprise identity and provisioning, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and SCIM.
  • - Permissions platforms, fine-grained authorization, and policy enforcement.
  • - Encryption, customer-managed keys, and key lifecycle management.
  • - Enterprise admin platforms, audit infrastructure, or usage and spend analytics.
  • 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, balancing threat models, authorization correctness, and failure behavior with 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 developmentsystem designidentity and provisioning

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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