Staff Engineer, Enterprise Integration Platform

Kindredventures; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Enterprise Platform Engineer to own the connector runtime and build a scalable knowledge layer that makes enterprise data and permissions actionable. You will design and ship end-to-end experiences for discovering, connecting, and activating integrations, with a focus on reliability and security across complex backend systems.

You'll work with AI Research and Enterprise teams to translate diverse enterprise needs into robust APIs, developer tools, and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, owning complex backend systems from design to production.
• Strong system design skills for reliable, scalable platforms that integrate heterogeneous APIs with clear security/isolation boundaries.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust and hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.
• Deep expertise in at least one: connector runtimes/API platforms/MCP servers or schema/knowledge systems or marketplaces.
• Ability to work across backend and customer-facing product experiences, translating integration requirements into APIs and developer tools.

Responsibilities

• 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, terminology, and provenance.
• Design discovery, search, and recommendation systems to help agents find relevant tools and contexts and guide integration choices.
• Build the marketplace and activation experience end to end, from browsing to installation and ongoing adoption.
• Make connector execution reliable and observable with retry, idempotency, pagination, rate-limiting, and recovery from partial failures; own reliability targets and incident response.
• Implement connector authentication, credential isolation, and permission enforcement in collaboration with Trust & Governance, Security, and Backend Platform.
• Develop onboarding and publishing paths for internal teams and external partners.

Skills

Backend systems

System design

Security & isolation

API platforms

Tool discovery systems

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Rust

Job description

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Enterprise Platform Engineer to own the connector runtime and build a scalable knowledge layer that makes enterprise data and permissions actionable. You will design and ship end-to-end experiences for discovering, connecting, and activating integrations, with a focus on reliability and security across complex backend systems.

You'll work with AI Research and Enterprise teams to translate diverse enterprise needs into robust APIs, developer tools, and