Staff Software Engineer: Security Automation & AI

Perplexity; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

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 include designing and maintaining automation for detection and response, implementing AI agents, supporting bug bounty

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.

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.
• Collaborate with security engineers and other software engineers to review designs and code, and to continuously improve our security tooling and platforms.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

Security tooling

Threat modeling

Tools

AWS

SIEM

EDR

Job description

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 include designing and maintaining automation for detection and response, implementing AI agents, supporting bug bounty