Principal Software Engineer, Okta
AI (Web & Data)
CA$175-192.5k
+ Bonus
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Be an early applicant
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$175-192.5k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8–10 years in software engineering, specializing in SaaS platform architecture and distributed systems design
- Leadership & Advocacy: Excellence in technical diplomacy and stakeholder influence. Proven ability to translate complex AI/Data roadmaps into business value while mentoring senior teams and advocating for architectural best practices
- Data Orchestration: Strong hands-on experience with Apache Airflow (or similar), Kafka, and dbt to support real-time AI applications
- AI & Web Convergence: Proven expertise integrating LLMs into production web environments with a focus on agentic workflows and autonomous UI generation
- Architectural Vision: Deep understanding of headless CMS, composable, and event-driven patterns that allow for programmatic content and UI generation
- Modern Delivery: Experience with cloud-native technologies (AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes) and a deep expertise in data privacy frameworks and AI ethics
What the job involves
- We are seeking an accomplished Principal Engineer to lead the technical architecture and evolution of our hybrid digital ecosystem
- In this pivotal role, you will drive the strategic integration of multi-modal AI into our core infrastructure while architecting an omnichannel platform capable of supporting complex customer journeys
- You will balance the adoption of proven third-party AI solutions (OpenAI, Anthropic) with the development of proprietary optimizations where they deliver a competitive advantage
- As a technical leader, you will champion a vendor-agnostic, ethically grounded, and Privacy by Design approach to AI implementation
- Infrastructure Modernization: Lead the roadmap for migrating legacy data pipelines to AI-native architectures. You will design modern data orchestration solutions utilizing Apache Airflow, dbt, and Kafka to replace outdated batch processing with real-time, event-driven flows
- AI-Native Web Transformation: Define the web infrastructure required for a high-agility ecosystem. Architect the evolution of our Headless CMS environments (AEM, Contentful) and modern frontend frameworks to enable automated page assembly and AI-driven UI components
- Agentic Pipeline Development: Design and build autonomous pipelines that bridge the gap between design systems, automated component development, and publishing workflows
- ML & Data Engineering Leadership: Establish standards for RAG, vector databases, and LLM orchestration. Provide architectural guidance for the seamless integration of AI capabilities across headless and omnichannel systems while ensuring consistency, performance, and security
- Engineering Productivity: Champion the use of AI-assisted coding and engineering productivity tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate development cycles and optimize architectural decision-making
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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