Senior Software Engineer, Agent Gateway

Okta is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the Agent Gateway. The Agent Gateway team owns the identity-aware infrastructure that connects enterprise AI agents to the tools, data, and services their organizations authorize.

The Senior Software Engineer will own features and components across the data and control planes, turning technical designs and product requirements into reliable production systems. The ideal candidate will have experience building production backend systems, proficiency in Java and/or Go, and working knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC.

Responsibilities

• Build and Ship: Own the implementation of gateway features end-to-end , from virtual MCP server aggregation to token exchange and policy evaluation , with tests, observability, and operational readiness built in.
• Work in the Runtime Path: Write code that handles credentials, tokens, tenant isolation, and audit logging with care.
• Implement the Protocols: Read and implement MCP, OAuth token exchange, and agent identity specifications, and feed production lessons back into designs and reference implementations.
• Ship With Agentic Tooling: Use Claude, Claude Code, and MCP-connected agents as everyday parts of your workflow across design, code generation, code review, and operations.
• Contribute to Quality: Participate in code review, testing, incident response, and our design-doc culture, and help raise the team's engineering bar.

Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years building production backend systems, ideally distributed and highly available.
• Technical Depth: Proficiency shipping production services in Java and/or Go.
• Domain Knowledge: Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, and comfort reading and implementing spec-driven code.
• Operational Sense: Hands-on experience with service rollouts, feature flags, observability, and incident response.
• Agentic Fluency: Working familiarity with agentic development tools (e.g., Claude Code, MCP servers, AI-assisted code review), with a point of view on where they accelerate work.
• Communication: Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to collaborate across a data plane service and a larger identity control plane.

Benefits

• Annual base salary range: $136,000-$187,000 CAD
• Equity (where applicable)
• Bonus
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• RRSP with a match
• Healthcare spending
• Telemedicine
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)