Join Okta as a Senior Software Engineer to build backend services for AI-driven identity operations.
Posted by employer 14 hours ago
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Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Build Python FastAPI services
- Implement durable execution with AWS services
- Manage PostgreSQL schemas and performance
- Build model API access for OpenAI and Anthropic
- Create reliable usage records and reconciliation
Must have
- Experience building and operating production backend systems
- Strong coding skills in Python or a comparable language
- Hands-on AWS experience with APIs and databases
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse or BigQuery
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience
- Deploying agent frameworks
AI in the day-to-day
Okta secures AI by building trusted infrastructure for organizations to embrace AI.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on developing backend services and infrastructure for Okta's new suite of autonomous agents designed for identity operations and security. Key skills include proficiency in Python, AWS, and database management, particularly with PostgreSQL, as well as experience in building production systems. This position is ideal for engineers with a strong background in backend development and a hands-on approach to operational reliability. The team operates with the agility of a startup while leveraging the resources of a public company.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 24, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page October 24, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 35% of 163 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $173,000 across 64 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 41.2% of 529 comparable senior backend roles in United States; FastAPI appears in 1.3% of 529 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Okta lists $165,000–$226,600 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, BigQuery, ClickHouse, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Sr. Software Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure role at Okta.
From the original posting
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
The Software Engineer Opportunity
The team that built Jeeva AI is building Digital Workers, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security inside Okta. The team works directly with Todd McKinnon, Okta's co-founder and CEO, with the opportunity to bring this product to Okta's 20,000+ customers. You will help shape the product with the ownership and pace of a startup and the resources of a public company.
You will build the backend and AWS platform that keep these workers running around the clock. The team owns services, connectors, workflow execution, data and production reliability. You will write Python services and infrastructure code that let workers make approved changes and preserve evidence.
About You
Reliable builder: You design for failure and prove that recovery works.
Hands-on engineer: You write production services and improve the tools engineers use every day.
Strong owner: You follow changes through deployment, monitoring and production support.
What you will be doing
- Build Python FastAPI services, data models and reusable connectors for Okta, AWS, ServiceNow and enterprise applications.
- Implement durable execution with Step Functions, SQS and EventBridge. Handle approval waits, rate limits, duplicate events and safe retries.
- Manage PostgreSQL schemas, indexes, query performance and pgvector retrieval. Enforce tenant isolation across APIs, storage and credentials.
- Build model API access for OpenAI, Anthropic and supported AWS paths, including credentials, quotas, timeouts and cost controls.
- Add an analytics pipeline for worker events, traces, tokens, findings and verified outcomes. Evaluate ClickHouse and comparable systems such as BigQuery.
- Create reliable usage records and reconciliation. Prevent retries, duplicate findings and incomplete work from being counted as new outcomes.
- Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability and safe release controls across development, staging and production.
- Implement scoped write services, kill switches, audit retention and backup recovery. Test failures and verify that sensitive changes actually took effect.
What you will bring to the role
- Experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems, with strong coding skills in Python or a comparable language.
- Hands-on AWS experience with APIs, queues, containers, networking, IAM and databases.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills. Experience diagnosing database performance and asynchronous system failures.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability and production incident response.
- Sound judgment about customer data, tenant isolation, credentials and safe changes to external systems.
Scope by level
Senior: Own a backend or platform component, including deployment, tests and production operation.
Staff: Lead a domain such as execution, tenant security, data infrastructure or reliability across teams.
Principal: Set shared backend and platform contracts, resolve system tradeoffs and implement foundational services.
Our stack
Python FastAPI, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway and containers. Data and security use RDS PostgreSQL, pgvector, S3 Object Lock, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch and CloudTrail. The frontend uses React and AWS Amplify.
OpenAI and Anthropic model integrations are planned. We are also adding an agent harness and dedicated analytics. ClickHouse is a hiring focus for analytics, and BigQuery or equivalent experience is relevant. The harness and analytics choices remain open.
And extra credit for
- ClickHouse, BigQuery or comparable analytics systems, event ingestion and usage metering.
- Multi-tenant SaaS, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM or enterprise connector development.
- Deploying agent frameworks, including Claude Agent SDK, Codex SDK, Strands Agents, Deep Agents or LangGraph. Prior identity experience is optional.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
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