Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Connector Platform)

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of the connector runtime for registering, hosting, and executing connectors and tools
• Build and extend the semantic layer including tool schemas, capability metadata, and relationship modeling
• Design tool-discovery and tool-selection surfaces to optimize model accuracy and context efficiency
• Ensure robust agent loops through structured results, retry semantics, idempotency, and observability
• Define authentication, authorization, and credential-isolation patterns like OAuth and BYOK
• Build connector onboarding paths including schemas, fixtures, and evaluation suites
• Set technical bars for reliability, SLAs, and error-rate monitoring
• Partner with product and AI teams to define integration patterns

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience designing and building production backend systems
• Strong system design skills for scalable architectures and API integration
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes
• Depth in OAuth, API/MCP-server development, or semantic modeling
• Experience with security-sensitive areas like authorization and credential isolation

About the Company

Perplexity builds the data layer that lets agents reach into the world's software, turning heterogeneous integrations into a unified, reliable surface for AI agents.