Perplexity - Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain software and automation that improves our detection and response program, including alert enrichment, triage workflows, and investigation tooling. • Implement and enhance internal AI agents and security bots that assist with monitoring, investigations, reporting, and other security operation tasks. • Develop and operate systems and workflows that support the bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure program, including intake, triage, prioritization, and remediation tracking. • Partner with product and engineering teams to threat model new features and systems, propose mitigations, and add guardrails into designs and implementations. • Contribute to secure-by-default libraries, services, and patterns that make it easy for teams to build secure features. • Integrate security signals from cloud, endpoints, SaaS, and applications into cohesive pipelines and data models that support detection and analysis. • Build automation to reduce manual work in incident response, containment, and remediation. • Collaborate with security engineers and other software engineers to review designs and code, and to continuously improve our security tooling and platforms. • Proficiency in at least one major programming language (such as Python, Go, or TypeScript) and experience building production services, CLIs, or internal tools. • Experience integrating with security-relevant systems such as logging pipelines, SIEMs, EDR, cloud APIs, or identity platforms. • Practical experience with threat modeling, secure design, or application security reviews for services or features. • Experience operating or contributing to bug bounty or vulnerability management programs is a plus. • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and modern SaaS environments. • Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, own projects end-to-end, and ship pragmatic, high-impact improvements. • Bonus: Experience designing or improving AI-powered agents or automation used for security operations.
Benefits
• $220K – $405K • Offers Equity • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more. • Full-time employees outside the U.S. enjoy a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence. • USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions. International salaries are set based on the local market. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • What are the most interesting aspects of Perplexity that you are excited to work on? • How do you use AI in your day-to-day work? What are some of the underappreciated benefits and/or pain points of your favorite AI tools? • Do you agree to allow Perplexity to contact you about job opportunities for up to 2 years? • Recruiting Privacy Policy
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