3 hours ago
Base Salary
$165k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build Python FastAPI services, data models, and reusable connectors for Okta, AWS, ServiceNow, and enterprise applications.
- Implement durable execution, approval waits, rate limiting, duplicate-event handling, and safe retries using Step Functions, SQS, and EventBridge.
- 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 for worker events, traces, tokens, findings, and verified outcomes, evaluating ClickHouse and BigQuery.
- Create reliable usage records and reconciliation that prevent retries, duplicate findings, and incomplete work from being miscounted.
- Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, and safe release controls across development, staging, and production.
- Implement scoped write services, kill switches, audit retention, backup recovery, failure testing, and verification of sensitive changes.
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 database performance diagnosis and asynchronous system failure analysis.
- 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.
- Preferred experience includes ClickHouse, BigQuery or comparable analytics systems, event ingestion, usage metering, multi-tenant SaaS, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, enterprise connectors, or agent frameworks such as Claude Agent SDK, Codex SDK, Strands Agents, Deep Agents, or LangGraph.
- Prior identity experience is optional.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $165,000—$226,600 USD for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area, excluding equity and 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 across Okta’s global community and offices.
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.