# Staff Software Engineer, AI-Core (Federal)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $194,000-$267,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is key to unlocking AI's potential. Okta builds a trusted infrastructure for organisations to safely adopt AI.

The AI-Core Team is developing a scalable Agentic AI platform for agents that perform real engineering tasks. The platform involves solving complex problems like agent identity, delegated access, and secure isolated execution.

**Responsibilities**

- Design and implement backend APIs and services for the agentic platform

- Build the agent identity and machine-to-machine authentication system

- Develop the agent knowledge base and memory layer

- Create the observability layer for agents

- Build the governance and safety layer

- Develop the orchestration layer for multi-step agent workflows

- Collaborate with various teams to integrate with the broader Okta platform

**Requirements**

- 5+ years of software engineering experience with production backend systems

- 1+ year of experience with AI/ML or agentic applications

- Strong proficiency in a backend language (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go)

- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and serverless technologies

- Security-conscious mindset with familiarity with OAuth, OIDC, and modern auth patterns

- Comfort working in ambiguous environments with evolving problem definitions

**Nice to Have**

- Exposure to LLM integration, RAG pipelines, MCP, or agent orchestration frameworks

- Experience with policy-as-code authorization, agent identity patterns, or developer-facing APIs and SDKs

**Benefits**

- Annual base salary range: $194,000-$267,000 USD

- Equity, bonus, and benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave

## Skills

### Required
- backend development
- AI/ML
- distributed systems
- security
- authentication
- authorization

### Nice to have
- LLM integration
- RAG pipelines
- MCP
- agent orchestration frameworks
- policy-as-code authorization
- agent identity patterns

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