Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)

Perplexity; General Trias; Vor Ort; PHP 900.000 - 1.300.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Perplexity is seeking a hands-on Software Engineer to build and evolve the software, automations, and systems that power our security operations. This role focuses on engineering security tools and internal AI-driven agents that improve detection and response, vulnerability management, and the overall security posture of our products and infrastructure.

You will design, build, and maintain production-grade services and internal tooling, collaborate with product and engineering teams to threat

Qualifikationen

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with focus on security tools or security engineering.
• Proficiency in a major language (Python, Go, or TypeScript) and building production services or internal tools.
• Experience with alert enrichment, triage workflows, or incident response tooling is a plus.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and maintain software and automation to improve detection and response programs.
• Implement and enhance internal AI agents and security bots for monitoring and investigations.
• Develop workflows for bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure, including triage and remediation tracking.
• Threat model new features with product and engineering, adding mitigations and guardrails.
• Contribute to secure-by-default libraries and patterns to help teams build secure features.
• Integrate security signals from cloud, endpoints, SaaS, apps into pipelines for detection.
• Build automation to reduce manual work in incident response and containment.
• Collaborate with security and software engineers to review designs and code.

Kenntnisse

Python

Go

TypeScript

Security tooling

Jobbeschreibung

About the Role

Perplexity is seeking a hands-on Software Engineer to build and evolve the software, automations, and systems that power our security operations. This role focuses on engineering security tools and internal AI-driven agents that improve detection and response, vulnerability management, and the overall security posture of our products and infrastructure.

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.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with significant time spent building security-related tools, platforms, or automations, or in a security engineering role with strong software development responsibilities.
• 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-r