Staff Engineer, Okta
Agentic Platform
$188-282k
+ Bonus
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Open for applications
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$188-282k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in AI/ML platforms or intelligent automation
- Deep expertise in AI agent frameworks, orchestration, vector search, RAG pipelines, and monitoring/observability
- Strong background in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), APIs, Python and microservices
- Hands-on experience building secure, enterprise-grade infrastructure for AI or ML workloads
- Proven ability to drive architecture decisions and influence platform strategy
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across time zones and global teams
What the job involves
- Okta’s Technology, Data, & Intelligence organization is on a mission to simplify and secure internal operations through automation, analysis, and scale
- Our Productivity Engineering team is responsible for developing internal tooling, infrastructure and services that empower Okta employees to work as effectively as possible
- We work across engineering, data science, security, and internal business teams to deliver automation-powered services that integrate across a wide array of SAAS apps and internally developed infrastructure to Okta
- A growing focus for our team has been an investment of cycles into AI agentic platforms, workflow orchestration, and data analytic dashboarding
- We’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving tough problems and building with purpose
- Reporting to the VP, Engineering Shared Services, this role will help design and scale our Agentic AI Platform — the foundation that enables enterprise teams to build, deploy, and manage intelligent AI agents securely and at scale
- As part of a global AI engineering team spanning the US and India, you’ll lead technical direction, contribute hands-on code, and mentor peers while shaping platform capabilities that empower applied AI use cases across Okta
- Lead the design and development of platform services for AI agents, including orchestration, lifecycle management, observability, and guardrails
- Partner with US and India engineering peers to define shared architecture and ensure globally aligned delivery
- Build scalable APIs and frameworks that allow teams to rapidly create and deploy secure AI agents
- Implement monitoring, evaluation, and governance features that ensure AI adoption is safe, reliable, and compliant
- Collaborate with Applied AI engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure the platform supports real-world use cases
- Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and contribute to setting best practices for AI platform development
- Stay ahead of trends in agentic AI, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI infrastructure
- At Okta, you’ll help shape the platform foundations that make enterprise AI possible — from secure orchestration to intelligent guardrails
- Your work will directly enable applied AI use cases that impact thousands of employees and customers, while ensuring AI adoption is smarter, faster, and always secure
- As part of a global engineering team, you’ll collaborate with peers in the US and India, making an impact at scale
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. They aim 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
(CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(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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