Staff Software Engineer, Okta

• This is a great opportunity for a Staff engineer with 8+ years of professional experience who thrives in collaborative environments, is eager to grow their technical depth, and wants to build scalable systems that solve real-world security problems
• Solid programming experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and familiarity with NodeJS runtime environments
• Practical experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (preferably Postgres and MongoDB)
• The ability to write well-tested, good quality code
• An enjoyment of working in an iterative development environment
• The ability to work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results
• Strong context-switching capabilities to be able to contribute to several projects at once, within and beyond the team
• Excellence when working autonomously, knowing when to seek help from team members
• A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and application layers
• Experience working on resilient products that can scale

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our AI Ecosystems team – a group of product-minded, deeply technical engineers delivering features to allow our customers to leverage the current Agentic ecosystem and engage their developer and partner base, in a world increasingly powered by artificial intelligence
• We are currently focusing on boosting our customers’ offer by providing the ability to expose their own Developer Portal as a point of engagement for their own partners and developers
• We’ll also be responsible for Auth0 integrations across different products and services in the Agentic space
• Auth0 works with NodeJS ( Javascript or Typescript), a hint of Go and MongoDB or PostgreSQL databases
• Bring expertise in identity and security while building innovative features and standards that will expose the Agentic AI ecosystem to our customers and their userbase
• Build and maintain scalable services using TypeScript, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL/MongoDB
• Collaborate with other product managers, designers, and senior engineers to deliver features that allow our customers to cover their user and partner needs for integrating with their APIs and products
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code, and participate in code reviews and system design discussions
• Provide technical direction to the team, detecting technical improvement opportunities and taking action to design and implement them
• Contribute to observability and alerting systems to ensure reliability and performance of our services
• Continuously learn and grow by working alongside experienced engineers on complex distributed systems
• Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers to support their growth