- Company: Okta
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: $194,000 – $267,300
About the role
Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the team building Digital Workers, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security. You will work directly with Okta’s co-founder and CEO to develop the backend and AWS platform that keeps these workers running around the clock. This position offers the ownership and pace of a startup with the resources of a public company.
Responsibilities
- Build Python FastAPI services, data models, and reusable connectors for Okta, AWS, ServiceNow, and enterprise applications.
- Implement durable execution using Step Functions, SQS, and EventBridge, handling approval waits, rate limits, and safe retries.
- Manage PostgreSQL schemas, indexes, and query performance, while enforcing tenant isolation across APIs and storage.
- Build model API access for OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS paths, including credentials, quotas, and cost controls.
- Add an analytics pipeline for worker events, traces, and verified outcomes, evaluating systems like ClickHouse or BigQuery.
- Create reliable usage records and reconciliation to prevent duplicate findings from being counted as new outcomes.
- Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability tools across development, staging, and production.
- Implement scoped write services, kill switches, audit retention, and backup recovery, testing failures to verify sensitive changes.
Requirements
- 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, including experience diagnosing database performance and asynchronous system failures.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability, and production incident response.
- Sound judgment regarding customer data, tenant isolation, credentials, and safe changes to external systems.
Pay and benefits
The annual base salary range for this position in the San Francisco Bay Area is $194,000 to $267,300. Actual salary depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. Okta also 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).
How to apply
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