The Enterprise Trust & Governance team builds the control plane that lets the world's largest organizations deploy Perplexity broadly and with confidence.
Product and platform engineering role with end-to-end ownership, from shaping architecture and policy models to shipping admin experiences.
Scope spans identity and provisioning, fine-grained role-based access across connectors, tool actions, and models, customer-managed encryption keys, admin APIs, audit logs, and policy and usage controls.
Responsibilities
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.
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.
Deliver audit logs and change notifications for compliance.
Set the technical bar for authorization correctness and reliability with strong tenant isolation.
Partner with Product, Design, Security, Sales, and Customer Success.
Requirements
4+ years of software engineering experience, owning complex backend systems from design through production operation.
Strong system design skills, including reliable, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust.
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.
Deep expertise in at least one of: enterprise identity and provisioning (OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM); permissions platforms and fine-grained authorization; encryption and key lifecycle management; enterprise admin platforms, audit infrastructure, or usage analytics.
Experience building or integrating enterprise identity and access systems such as WorkOS, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID.
Sound technical judgment in security-sensitive systems.
Track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives.