# Engineering Architect, Identity (Auth0)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $244,000-$330,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Identity Protocols
- OAuth
- OIDC
- SAML
- Security Engineering
- Application Security
- Distributed Systems
- API-first Applications
- Multi-cloud Environments
- Kubernetes
- Node.js
- Go
- Cloud Applications

### Nice to have
- Deep experience in Node.js (Javascript or Typescript)
- Golang

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