Engineering Architect, Identity (Auth0)

Job Summary

As an Engineering Architect, Identity at Okta, you will play a crucial role in shaping the company's technology direction. You will collaborate with various teams to define and improve Okta's technology stack and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve Okta's technology stack and architecture.
• Foster and lead innovation in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) space, with a strong focus on Agentic Identity.
• Lead initiatives to enhance, scale, and evolve Okta's product offerings.
• Embed within Engineering teams across the organisation for large projects, while providing guidance and lighter touch engagements for smaller initiatives.
• Design, architect, and document large-scale distributed systems.
• Lead the development of complex, broadly-scoped functionality in a very large and deep set of services and components.
• Teach by doing: coding, optimising, and troubleshooting Node.js and Go applications in collaboration with feature development teams.
• Implement features and create consistent foundations using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
• Investigate, understand, and resolve bottlenecks in our ability to scale, use resources efficiently, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA.
• Drive technical decision-making while striving to find the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance.
• Participate in 'round table' discussions and mentor team members and engineers throughout the organisation to level up our people.
• Participate in our Engineering Leadership Team with other architects, directors, and executives.
• Join our Incident Commander on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable systems at scale.
• Knowledge of Identity Protocols such as OAuth, OIDC, and SAML.
• Industry knowledge of the Authorisation and Authentication spaces.
• Experience in building AI Agents, and/or MCP servers applications.
• Experience with security engineering and application security.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to adjust your communication style to the intended audience.
• Mastery and deep understanding of hands-on software development building distributed systems.
• Experience with API-first applications using REST and/or gRPC.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments, particularly Kubernetes in AWS/Azure.
• Prior experience with application performance management, tracing, and performance testing tools.
• Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for technical initiatives.
• Great ability to build trust through collaboration with multiple teams and get consensus on a vision.
• Knowledge of application security and cloud security best practices.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience working on cloud applications.

Nice to Have

• Deep experience in Node.js (Javascript or Typescript), or Golang.

Salary Information

The annual base salary range for this position is between $244,000-$330,000 USD.

Benefits

Okta offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave.