Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build, and maintain software and automation improving detection and response, including alert enrichment, triage workflows, and investigation tooling
• ▹Implement and enhance internal AI agents and security bots assisting with monitoring, investigations, and reporting
• ▹Develop and operate systems and workflows supporting the bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure program: intake, triage, prioritization, remediation tracking
• ▹Partner with product and engineering teams to threat model new features, propose mitigations, and add guardrails
• ▹Contribute to secure-by-default libraries, services, and patterns
• ▹Integrate security signals from cloud, endpoints, SaaS, and applications into cohesive pipelines and data models
• ▹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

Requirements

• ▹4+ years of software engineering experience with significant time building security-related tools, platforms, or automations, or a security engineering role with strong development responsibilities
• ▹Proficiency in at least one major programming language (Python, Go, or TypeScript), building production services, CLIs, or internal tools
• ▹Experience integrating with security-relevant systems such as logging pipelines, SIEMs, EDR, cloud APIs, or identity platforms
• ▹Practical experience with threat modeling, secure design, or application security reviews
• ▹Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and modern SaaS environments
• ▹Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, own projects end-to-end, and ship pragmatic, high-impact improvements

Nice to have

• ▹Experience operating or contributing to bug bounty or vulnerability management programs
• ▹Experience designing or improving AI-powered agents or automation used for security operations

Soft skills

About the company

Perplexity's security team improves the security posture of its products and infrastructure through software, automation, and internal AI agents.