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About the Role

Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure to enable organizations to safely embrace AI. This role is an opportunity to do career-defining work on the Developer Platform team at Auth0 (an Okta company), owning the platform that developers build identity on, increasingly alongside AI agents. You will serve as the technical leader and compass for the team, tackling complex problems and defining clear technical direction without day-to-day oversight. You'll own how the platform is architected to scale, its distributed systems, reliability, and consistency guarantees, and champion technical execution, mentor others, and partner across teams.

Responsibilities

Own the platform architecture: Set the technical direction for the developer platform, and make the cross-cutting decisions that keep it coherent and easy to build on as it grows.
Architect for scale: Design the distributed systems behind the platform for throughput, reliability, and consistency, so the guarantees developers depend on hold up under real load.
Turn ambiguity into direction: Take the hardest, most vaguely specified platform problems and turn them into clear, modular technical designs the team can execute against.
Design for developers and agents: Shape the platform so it holds up whether a person or an agent is calling it, and so both can build and automate their work against Auth0.
Raise the engineering bar: Set the standard for how the team designs, builds, and operates the platform, and lead deep, constructive reviews that grow the engineers around you.
Partner across teams: Operate peer-to-peer with tech leads in adjacent groups to review major architectural decisions and keep the wider platform aligned.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Principal or Staff level individual contributor.
Extensive experience designing and operating high-scale, reliable backend and event-driven systems, with a strong grasp of the tradeoffs in throughput, consistency, and failure handling.
A track record of designing and shipping platforms or developer-facing systems at scale, with an instinct for the interfaces and abstractions that keep them coherent as they grow.
Deep understanding of identity and access management, with a sense for the platform capabilities and abstractions that make identity easier for developers to build on.
You can own vaguely specified problems and drive them to a clear technical direction without heavy top-down scoping.
Strong Node.js fundamentals; Go a plus.
Hands-on familiarity with agentic tooling, MCP, or LLM-facing design, and a sense for how agents consume a platform.
Experience working across engineering, product, and architecture in a fast-moving environment, and a habit of raising the bar for the people around you.

Skills

Distributed architecture
Backend systems
Event-driven systems
Platform design
Developer-facing systems
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Node.js
Go
Agentic tooling
MCP
LLM-facing design

Location

Canada

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal Engineer (P5)
10+ years of software engineering experience
Principal or Staff level individual contributor

Salary/Compensations

$184,000—$253,000 CAD

Benefits

Equity (where applicable)
Bonus
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
RRSP with a match
Healthcare spending
Telemedicine
Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the Company

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 Developer Platform team at Auth0 (an Okta company) owns the platform that developers build identity on. Increasingly they build alongside AI agents, and that raises the bar on everything underneath: interfaces have to hold up whether a person or an agent is calling them, and the systems behind them have to stay reliable and coherent as usage grows. We move fast, we own problems end to end, and we care deeply about the platform we put in front of the developers and agents who depend on it.
Supporting Your Well-Being
Driving Social Impact
Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Equal Opportunity

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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