Staff Platform Engineer: Enterprise Connectors & Marketplace

Perplexity; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 110 000 - 160 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Perplexity is seeking an experienced engineer to own the Enterprise Knowledge Platform backend, designing connector infrastructure, semantic models, and the developer marketplace. You will build runtimes, knowledge layers, and activation experiences for integrations used by enterprise customers.

Collaborating with AI Research and Enterprise teams, you’ll turn fragmented systems into reliable, permission-aware capabilities, delivering end-to-end ownership from design to production while focusing

Qualificações

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of backend systems.
• Strong system design skills for scalable platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust; experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Deep expertise in connector runtimes, API platforms, or marketplace onboarding.
• Ability to translate integration requirements into clear APIs and developer tools.
• Sound security practices with credential isolation and permissions.
• Experience leading ambiguous cross-team initiatives from architecture to adoption.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conhecimentos

Backend systems design

System design

Python

Go

Rust

AWS

Kubernetes

Security & isolation

Cross-team leadership

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Perplexity is seeking an experienced engineer to own the Enterprise Knowledge Platform backend, designing connector infrastructure, semantic models, and the developer marketplace. You will build runtimes, knowledge layers, and activation experiences for integrations used by enterprise customers.

Collaborating with AI Research and Enterprise teams, you’ll turn fragmented systems into reliable, permission-aware capabilities, delivering end-to-end ownership from design to production while focusing