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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)

Perplexity

Remote · United States$18,333–33,750 gross/mofull-timePerplexity Careers

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.

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    Posted
    2 Dec 2025
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