Software Engineer (Security)

Location: San Francisco, Belgrade, London, New York City, or Remote (United States)

Salary: $220,000–$405,000 USD annually for U.S.-based positions; international salaries are based on the local market. Equity is offered.

Company

Perplexity develops AI-powered products and the software infrastructure behind them.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain security software and automation for alert enrichment, triage workflows, detection, response, and investigations.
• Implement internal AI agents and security bots for monitoring, investigations, reporting, and security operations.
• Develop workflows supporting bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs, including intake, prioritization, and remediation tracking.
• Partner with product and engineering teams on threat modeling, secure design, mitigations, and security guardrails.
• Build secure-by-default libraries, services, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Integrate security signals from cloud, endpoint, SaaS, and application systems into pipelines and data models.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, including significant work on security tools, platforms, or automation.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, TypeScript, or another major programming language, with experience building production services, CLIs, or internal tools.
• Experience integrating logging pipelines, SIEMs, EDR, cloud APIs, or identity platforms.
• Practical experience with threat modeling, secure design, or application security reviews.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and modern SaaS environments.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end and collaborate with cross-functional engineering and security teams.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• U.S. full-time employees receive equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter, and dependent care benefits.
• International full-time employees receive benefits tailored to their region of residence.
• Work focuses on pragmatic, high-impact improvements to security tooling and platforms.