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About the Role
Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure to enable organizations to safely embrace AI. This role involves doing career-defining work on Digital Workers, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security, with the opportunity to bring this product to Okta's 20,000+ customers. You will shape the product with the ownership and pace of a startup and the resources of a public company.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement shared contracts for tasks, events, permissions, approvals, evidence and usage.
- Set clear boundaries between model reasoning, agent harnesses, durable workflows and services that enforce authorization.
- Select a harness through representative identity tasks, failure tests and operational evidence.
- Keep model providers and harness components replaceable.
- Design integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, including data boundaries, latency, cost, version changes and measured release quality.
- Build reference services for tenant isolation, scoped tool execution, idempotency, long approval waits and verified results.
- Define the transactional and analytics data architecture.
- Keep PostgreSQL application state separate from the planned ClickHouse or BigQuery analytics layer.
- Connect Product, Applied AI and Platform engineers through clear ownership and practical APIs.
- Resolve dependencies that slow delivery.
- Write critical implementations, review recovery and security, and guide technical leads through production rollout and customer expansion.
Requirements
- A record of leading architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams, with recent production code you personally implemented.
- Deep knowledge of distributed services, API design, data consistency, cloud security and production operations.
- Experience making systems simpler while improving reliability, security or delivery speed.
- The ability to explain design tradeoffs, guide senior engineers and remain accountable through implementation.
- Depth in at least one of the two role areas below, plus the ability to work across the full product.
Skills
- AI systems architect
- Build and evaluate agent harnesses, context management, model integrations and quality controls.
- Claude Agent SDK
- OpenAI Codex SDK
- Strands Agents
- LangChain Deep Agents
- LangGraph
- Comparable custom runtime
- Platform architect
- Lead backend, connector, security, data and workflow architecture.
- Deep production systems experience
- Practical knowledge of integrating model-driven workflows.
- Enterprise identity
- Security products
- OAuth
- OIDC
- SAML
- SCIM
- Complex customer integrations
- ClickHouse
- BigQuery
- Agent evaluations
- Post-training systems
- Open-source infrastructure
- Building a new product within a larger enterprise
- Keeping technical decisions reversible
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Work Type
- In-person
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $274,000—$376,200 USD
Benefits
- Equity (where applicable)
- Bonus
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
About the Company
- Okta is the leading identity and access management platform. We secure every identity, from AI to human. 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.
- If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
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