- Company: Okta
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: CAD 160,000 – 220,000
About the role
Okta is seeking a Staff FullStack Engineer to join the Secures AI team in Toronto. This position is central to building the industry’s first Identity Security Fabric for the agentic era. The team is dedicated to securing digital identity for both humans and AI agents, ensuring that organizations can safely deploy AI while maintaining strict security controls. You will help transform identity from a reactive gatekeeper into a unified control plane that manages access for automated agents effectively.
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical strategy for the Identity Security Fabric, prioritizing open standards like IPSIE.
- Implement the four-pillar maturity model (Discover, Onboard, Protect, and Govern) across fullstack ecosystems.
- Architect systems to discover and secure all agents, including “Shadow AI” assets.
- Enforce secure access and least privilege for agents using capabilities like Agent Gateways and short-lived credentials.
- Drive the adoption of AI-native development practices, integrating AI into design, review, and shipping workflows.
- Identify and prioritize technical debt, improving CI/CD, observability, documentation, and reliability.
- Partner with Product and Design to own the desired customer outcomes.
- Mentor peer engineers and raise the technical bar for the team.
Requirements
- Experience applying AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle.
- Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs.
- Solid understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals.
- Deep expertise in building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software using Java or another type-safe language.
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript to contribute to frontend development.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, with experience on AWS.
- Experience leading teams through shifts in ways of working, such as AI adoption or engineering culture change.
- Experience building or maintaining publicly released SDKs.
- Experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) tooling.
Pay and benefits
The annual base salary range for candidates located in Canada is between CAD 160,000 and CAD 220,000. Actual salary depends on skills, qualifications, and experience. Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonuses, and benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).
How to apply
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