Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Connector Platform)

What this role involves

This role involves building the data layer for Perplexity's agents to integrate with hundreds of external systems. The engineer will own the connector runtime, semantic layer, and tool discovery surfaces. They will ensure robustness, security, and reliability of agent-tool interactions.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• go
• rust
• aws
• kubernetes
• oauth
• api integration
• llm agents
• schema modeling
• backend systems
• authentication
• authorization
• mcp
• observability
• agent loops

From the employer’s posting

ABOUT THE ROLE The Connector Platform team builds the data layer that lets Perplexity's agents reach into the world's software. This team owns the systems that turn hundreds of heterogeneous integrations (native, MCP, CLI, first-party, and third-party APIs) into one unified, reliable, well-typed s…