Okta

Principal Software Engineer, AI Engineering

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8 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Drive architecture and design for AI solutions and lead cross-functional initiatives across Product, Design, and Data Science.
  • Design, build, and refine backend services for LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, and generative AI features.
  • Build high-performance agentic experiences for web and mobile with streaming responses and low latency.
  • Champion observability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence for enterprise AI services.
  • Provide technical leadership and hands-on execution for key AI projects.
  • Mentor engineers and raise technical craftsmanship and solution quality across the full stack.
  • Collaborate with global peers on designs, roadmaps, and scalable architectures.
  • Partner with Security, Data, and Infrastructure teams to deliver secure, reliable, enterprise-ready AI.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend systems design and development experience.
  • 8+ years of Python experience preferred.
  • 6+ years of experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
  • Experience building and deploying production-grade AI applications and services.
  • Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, resilient APIs, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy and lead architecture decisions across global teams.
  • Excellent communication and cross-time-zone collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
  • Well-being support, social impact opportunities, and talent development and community-building programs.
  • Opportunity to work on applied AI projects and secure, scalable enterprise AI platform foundations with a global team.
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About Okta

5,001-10,000 employees

Okta secures AI. Okta is The World’s Identity Company. Freeing everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app.

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