Senior Developer Support Engineer, Okta
Builder Experience, BX
CA$100-150k
+ Equity (where applicable) and bonus
2 days a week in office
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$100-150k
+ Equity (where applicable) and bonus
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Education & Experience: BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, MIS, or a related technical discipline, paired with 4+ years of experience in developer support, technical support, solutions engineering or software development with significant customer facing experience
- Problem Solving & Advocacy: Deep technical troubleshooting skills paired with strong empathy for developers, advocating for customer success in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Programming Proficiency: Fluency in at least one statically typed language (e.g., C#, C++, Java) and one dynamically typed language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Ruby)
- Web & API Architecture: Hands-on experience supporting or building cloud applications, RESTful APIs, and web frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Django/Flask, ASP.NET, Rails)
- Modern Tech & AI Tooling: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and protocols (e.g., Claude, OpenAI Codex/Copilot, MCP servers)
- Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills across multiple channels (docs, chat, live calls) with the self-direction to work independently or collaborate cross-functionally
Desirable
- Experience supporting Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions within enterprise environments
- Hands-on experience with modern authentication and authorization protocols (SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0)
- Deep understanding of enterprise SCIM provisioning, including custom schema design, attribute mapping, lifecycle flows, and troubleshooting common failure patterns
- Proven success building, maintaining, or supporting third-party ISV and technology partner integrations at scale
- Exposure to modern AI tools and frameworks (e.g., Model Context Protocol / MCP, Claude, OpenAI Codex)
- Experience supporting multi-tier (n-tier) web application architectures
What the job involves
- As a Senior Developer Support Engineer on the Builder Experience team, you are a hands-on technical problem solver passionate about helping Okta’s customers, ISVs, GSIs, and partners seamlessly integrate our secure identity platform
- In this role, you will provide advanced technical assistance, troubleshoot sophisticated issues across Okta SDKs, Okta for AI Agents and protocols such as Cross App Access, OAuth, OIDC, and SCIM recommending robust workarounds and best practices. You own the customer experience and will serve as a key advocate for our customers and partners to our product and engineering teams
- You bring a builder mindset and an AI forward approach spotting recurring patterns in customer issues or internal workflows and building solutions to address them
- Drive Complex Technical Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of sophisticated customer issues and drive to resolution with technical excellence and best customer experience
- Technical reproduction & Triage: Reproduce complex customer issues in a local environment and author accurate bug tickets for Engineering to accelerate resolution
- Best Practices & Robust Workarounds: Deliver expert technical guidance by recommending robust workarounds and proven best practices to help developers and partners successfully integrate and scale on our platform
- Knowledge Sharing & Empowerment: Write high-quality knowledge articles for self-service resolution across customers and developer ecosystem
- Champion Partner & Developer Success: Serve as a trusted technical advisor and relentless advocate for customers, ISVs, and strategic partners navigating our secure identity platform
- Influence Product & Engineering: Channel real-world customer insights and architectural feedback directly back into cross-functional teams to shape the future of our builder experience
- Build Proactive Solutions: Leverage a builder mindset and AI native approach to build internal tooling using AI-assisted development tools like Claude
Application process
- Must be able to attend in person orientation at the Toronto office on the first Tuesday of employment
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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