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This team makes those controls easy to manage, reliable and consistent across every product, and transparent to the people accountable for them.\r\nThis is a product and platform engineering role with end-to-end ownership, from shaping the architecture and policy models to shipping the experiences our customers’ administrators and security teams use every day. You’ll work across product and infrastructure teams to turn complex enterprise requirements into reusable primitives and intuitive controls. The 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. Strong governance helps enterprises move from pilots to company-wide rollouts and gives them the confidence to entrust agents with greater responsibility over time.\r\nKey ResponsibilitiesOwn enterprise identity and provisioning, including SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, WorkOS integrations, and support for identity providers such as Okta and Microsoft Entra ID.\r\nBuild the permissions platform, with fine-grained roles and permissions for connectors, tool actions, models, and model effort levels, enforced consistently across products and agent workflows.\r\nDesign and ship secure, well-documented admin APIs for audit logs, members, groups, roles, and settings.\r\nBuild policy controls for model and feature availability, staged rollouts, model deprecations, usage and spend limits, alerts, and cost-center allocation.\r\nBuild admin-facing analytics for adoption, usage, spend, and policy enforcement, helping organizations measure value and manage their deployments.\r\nDeliver audit logs and change notifications that help administrators investigate activity, track configuration changes, and support compliance.\r\nSet the technical bar for authorization correctness and reliability, with fast, consistent, explainable permission checks, well-defined failure behavior, and strong tenant isolation.\r\nPartner with Product, Design, Security, Sales, and Customer Success to translate complex enterprise requirements into reusable platform capabilities and intuitive admin experiences.\r\nQualifications4+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex backend systems from design through production operation.\r\nStrong system design skills, including building reliable, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms with clear security and isolation boundaries.\r\nStrong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.\r\nDeep expertise in at least one of the following:\r\nEnterprise identity and provisioning, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and SCIM.\r\nPermissions platforms, fine-grained authorization, and policy enforcement.\r\nEncryption, customer-managed keys, and key lifecycle management.\r\nEnterprise admin platforms, audit infrastructure, or usage and spend analytics.\r\nExperience building or integrating enterprise identity and access systems, including platforms such as WorkOS, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID.\r\nSound technical judgment in security-sensitive systems, balancing threat models, authorization correctness, and failure behavior with usability and delivery speed.\r\nA track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from architecture through adoption, setting technical direction for shared platforms, and raising engineering quality through mentorship.#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Branchfactor","rawCompany":"branchfactor","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-11-04T03:07:36.039Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineer","description":"About the RoleThe Enterprise Trust & Governance team builds the control plane that lets the world’s largest organizations deploy Perplexity broadly and with confidence. 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