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
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