Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Identity & Permissions

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Perplexity is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the enterprise identity and governance stack, delivering precise provisioning, secure admin APIs, and scalable multi-tenant controls for large organizations.

You will collaborate across product, design, security, and customer success to translate complex requirements into reusable platform capabilities, driving adoption and governance at scale.

Qualificações

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex backend systems from design through production operation.
• Strong system design skills, including building reliable, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms with clear security and isolation boundaries.
• Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following: Enterprise identity and provisioning, permissions platforms, encryption, or enterprise admin platforms.
• Experience building or integrating enterprise identity and access systems, including platforms such as WorkOS, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID.
• Sound technical judgment in security-sensitive systems, balancing threat models, authorization correctness, and failure behavior with usability and delivery speed.
• A track record of leading ambiguous, cross‑team initiatives from architecture through adoption, setting technical direction for shared platforms, and raising engineering quality through mentorship.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conhecimentos

Backend system design

Multi-tenant SaaS

Security-focused design

Leadership across teams

Ferramentas

Python

Go

Rust

AWS

Kubernetes

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Perplexity is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the enterprise identity and governance stack, delivering precise provisioning, secure admin APIs, and scalable multi-tenant controls for large organizations.

You will collaborate across product, design, security, and customer success to translate complex requirements into reusable platform capabilities, driving adoption and governance at scale.