Description
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.
The Okta Secures AI Team is building the future of digital identity management. The way companies are using agents and allowing them access is undergoing a fundamental shift, enabling teams to move fast while staying secure. Our North Star is clear: To get AI right, you have to get identity right. We are not just managing identities; we are building the industry's first Identity Security Fabric for the agentic era.
As a Staff FullStack Engineer on the Okta Secures AI team, your mission is to build the industry's first Identity Security Fabric for the agentic era. You are the architect of our unified control plane, ensuring that we operationalize our North Star: "To get AI right, you have to get identity right."
You will:
- Proactively shape the technical strategy of the Identity Security Fabric, partnering with leadership to prioritize open standards like IPSIE.
- Govern and monitor agentic behavior by implementing the four-pillar maturity model across our fullstack ecosystems.
- Architect for the agentic era, ensuring systems can discover and secure all agents, including "Shadow AI" assets.
- Enforce secure access and least privilege for agents through capabilities like Agent Gateways and short-lived credentials.
- Drive continual evolution in the adoption of AI-native development practices, helping the team rethink how we design, review, and ship software with AI as a core part of the workflow.
- Proactively identify and prioritize tech debt; drive improvements in areas beyond feature work - CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes.
- Partner with Product and Design to understand and own the desired customer outcome, not just the technical deliverable.
- Actively invest in the growth of peer engineers, taking responsibility for raising the technical bar of the team as a whole.
Requirements:
- Operates well beyond basic AI tool usage - understands how to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle, can evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment, and is able to establish practices and bring a team along.
- Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies - including the ability to make and defend architectural decisions with lasting org-wide impact.
- Solid understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals - how auth flows work, and best practices for securing sensitive user data.
- Deep expertise in building highly reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software using Java or another type-safe programming language.
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, with the ability to navigate and contribute to the frontend to unblock feature development.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, with experience designing and operating large-scale services on AWS.
Nice to have:
- Prior experience leading a team of engineers through a meaningful shift in ways of working - whether around AI adoption, developer tooling, or engineering culture change.
- Experience building or maintaining publicly released SDKs used by external developers.
- Experience in one of the following areas is preferred: developing Identity and Access Management (IAM) tooling and contributing to a "zero-to-one" startup-like team.
In addition to a competitive salary, Okta offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave.