2 hours ago
Base Salary
$274k - $376k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and implement shared contracts for tasks, events, permissions, approvals, evidence, and usage.
- Establish boundaries between model reasoning, agent harnesses, durable workflows, and authorization-enforcing services.
- Evaluate and select replaceable agent harnesses using identity tasks, failure tests, and operational evidence.
- Design OpenAI and Anthropic API integrations with attention to data boundaries, latency, cost, version changes, and release quality.
- Build services supporting tenant isolation, scoped tool execution, idempotency, long approval waits, and verified results.
- Define transactional and analytics data architecture, separating PostgreSQL application state from the planned ClickHouse or BigQuery analytics layer.
- Connect Product, Applied AI, and Platform engineers through clear ownership and practical APIs.
- Write critical implementations, review recovery and security, and guide technical leads through production rollout and customer expansion.
Requirements
- Demonstrated leadership of architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams, including recent personally implemented production code.
- Deep knowledge of distributed services, API design, data consistency, cloud security, and production operations.
- Experience simplifying systems while improving reliability, security, or delivery speed.
- Ability to explain design tradeoffs, guide senior engineers, and remain accountable through implementation.
- Depth in AI systems architecture or platform architecture, with the ability to work across the full product.
- AI systems experience with agent harnesses, context management, model integrations, quality controls, or comparable agent runtimes is relevant.
- Platform architecture experience should include backend, connector, security, data, workflow architecture, and model-driven workflow integrations.
- Extra credit for enterprise identity, security products, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, ClickHouse, BigQuery, agent evaluations, post-training systems, or open-source infrastructure.
Benefits
- Annual base salary for San Francisco Bay Area candidates is $274,000–$376,200 USD.
- Equity and bonus may be offered where applicable.
- Benefits include health, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- The role includes an immersive, in-person onboarding experience; Okta has a global community spanning more than 20 offices.
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About Okta
Okta builds cloud-based identity and access management for enterprises and developers, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management. It sells subscription SaaS as the Okta Workforce Identity and Customer Identity Clouds; the latter incorporates Auth0, acquired in 2021. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Okta is a public company traded on Nasdaq.