12 hours ago
Base Salary
$194k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- 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, including approval waits, rate limits, duplicate-event handling, and safe retries.
- Manage PostgreSQL schemas, indexes, query performance, pgvector retrieval, and tenant isolation across APIs, storage, and credentials.
- Build model API access for OpenAI, Anthropic, and supported AWS paths with credential, quota, timeout, and cost controls.
- Develop analytics pipelines and reliable usage reconciliation for worker events, traces, tokens, findings, and verified outcomes.
- Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, safe release controls, scoped write services, kill switches, audit retention, and backup recovery.
- Lead a domain such as execution, tenant security, data infrastructure, or reliability across teams at the Staff level.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems with strong Python or comparable-language coding skills.
- Hands-on AWS experience with APIs, queues, containers, networking, IAM, and databases.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills, including 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.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $194,000–$267,300 USD for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Equity where applicable, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- Immersive in-person onboarding experience and connection with a global community spanning over 20 offices.
- Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support available.
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.