Senior Architect, Okta
Emerging Technologies, Auth0
$272-374k
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Open for applications
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$272-374k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Senior Architect-Level Technical Depth: Extensive experience as a Senior Architect or Distinguished Engineer with a history of shipping complex, large-scale systems
- Hands-on Practitioner: You still love coding. You prefer to prove an architectural concept with a PR rather than a slide deck
- Domain Expertise: Strong background in Authorization/Identity and a mastery of Graph Algorithms
- Adaptability: Comfortable shifting between the rigors of scaling a "1-to-10" product and the ambiguity of a "0-to-1" AI initiative
What the job involves
- Dentity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence
- This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk
- We are looking for a Senior Architect to join our Emerging Technologies organization. This is a high-leverage, hands-on engineering role designed for a technical leader who wants to stay in the code while steering the architectural direction of our most ambitious bets
- You will be a core contributor and architectural anchor for two high-priority workstreams:
- To build a world-class, low-latency FGA system that remains resilient under the industry’s most complex identity hierarchies. We are looking for an architect who views authorization not as a set of rules, but as a massive-scale graph computation problem that requires elegant, distributed, and mathematically rigorous solutions
- The Work:
- Algorithmic Innovation: Moving beyond naive graph algorithms to implement probabilistic structures and fixpoint algorithms capable of navigating massive organizational hierarchies without computational or memory exhaustion
- Graph Resolution Heuristics: Engineering workload-aware heuristics that can intelligently prioritize and resolve graph queries based on complexity cost, maintaining low latency even when faced with high-cardinality data sets and deep nesting
- Fixpoint & Cycle Resolution: Solving for complex resolution requirements, such as circular references and recursive paths, in a horizontally scaled environment where traditional distributed patterns fail to meet our performance mandates
- Scaling the Probabilistic Logic: Designing the engine to utilize non-deterministic approaches where exact computation is too expensive, ensuring the system remains mathematically rigorous while operating at the limits of global scale
- AI Products | 0 to 1
- We are pioneering the "Agentic Identity" space. This workstream is focused on building foundational products that secure AI Agents and provide developers with the tools to manage identity in an autonomous world
- The Work: Rapidly architecting and shipping 0-to-1 product offerings that define how agents interact securely
- The Goal: Establish our platform as the standard for securing the next generation of AI-driven applications
- Architectural Acceleration: Don’t just design it, build it. You will accelerate teams by writing critical-path code and providing the architectural "connective tissue" between complex systems
- Algorithmic Leadership: Apply deep expertise in graph theory and distributed systems to solve the unique scaling challenges of our FGA domain
- Technical Strategy: Partner with product leadership to define the technical roadmap for securing AI agents, ensuring our 0-to-1 bets are built on a sustainable foundation
- High-Bar Engineering: Set the standard for code quality, system design, and engineering excellence across the Emerging Tech group
Our take
Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.
The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. It aims to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.
Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2015
$75m
SERIES F
Jun 2014
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $229.3m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health + Wellness
- Financial Benefits
- Pay + Incentives
- Time Off
- Everyday Living
- Resources
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(Co-Founder & CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Co-Founder & Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
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