Senior Software Engineer for Enterprise Identity Governance

Wwshemi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer) for Enterprise Trust & Governance in San Francisco. You will own identity provisioning, permissions, and admin APIs across a multi-tenant platform, shaping architecture and policy models for administrators and security teams.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Security, Sales, and Customer Success to translate enterprise requirements into reusable platform capabilities, enabling company-wide rollouts while ensuring

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience owning backend systems.
• Strong system design for multi-tenant SaaS with clear security and isolation boundaries.
• Proficiency in Python, Go or Rust and cloud infra such as AWS and Kubernetes.

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.

Skills

Backend development

System design

Python

Go

Rust

AWS

Kubernetes

OAuth

OIDC

SAML

SCIM

Security

Multi-tenant

Cross-team leadership

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer) for Enterprise Trust & Governance in San Francisco. You will own identity provisioning, permissions, and admin APIs across a multi-tenant platform, shaping architecture and policy models for administrators and security teams.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Security, Sales, and Customer Success to translate enterprise requirements into reusable platform capabilities, enabling company-wide rollouts while ensuring