Jobs at Okta

Lead and grow a software engineering team developing Okta Access Gateway, a high-throughput hybrid access and gateway platform. Responsibilities include people leadership, hiring, roadmap execution, agile delivery, architectural reviews, threat modeling, operational excellence, security, performance, containerization, deployment automation, and integration with Okta Identity Cloud. The role requires strong distributed systems, enterprise infrastructure, networking, cloud, CI/CD, and security expertise, along with effective cross-functional communication.

Lead full-stack engineering for Okta Workflows’ no-code Integration Builder. Design and deliver secure, scalable front-end and back-end features using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Drive architecture, testing, deployment, observability, incident response, and performance improvements. Collaborate with Product, Design, Platform, and Architecture teams, contribute to technical planning, and mentor engineers while promoting strong engineering standards and intuitive user experiences.

Develop scalable semantic data models, measurement strategies, executive dashboards, and product insights for Sales, TAM, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering teams. Own data lifecycle management, enable data tooling, educate stakeholders, support self-service analytics, and ensure privacy and governance. Translate business needs into technical requirements while partnering across teams to improve product, revenue, and customer success metrics.

Build and evolve Okta’s Privileged Access Management platform through scalable architecture, backend APIs, and React-based user interfaces. The role involves developing Go backend services, PostgreSQL data models, cloud-based systems, and reliable distributed components. Engineers own features end to end, focusing on scalability, availability, performance, security, maintainability, and customer experience while collaborating on a fully distributed team.

Analyze account, audience, campaign, intent, and growth-motion data to identify trends, coverage gaps, and performance opportunities. Build dashboards and recurring reports, support total account list segmentation and prioritization, measure GrowthX programs, and recommend campaigns, journey triggers, field motions, and follow-up actions. Partner cross-functionally with growth, campaign, field, marketing automation, analytics, and sales teams to translate insights into practical optimizations.

Owns Auth0’s B2B identity and enterprise federation products, including Enterprise Connections and B2B Connect. Responsibilities include defining product strategy, standards roadmaps, modularization, APIs, requirements, customer experiences, business cases, and iterative delivery. The role partners with engineering and design teams, researches identity and tenancy solutions, analyzes customer and market data, and guides development of secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS capabilities.

Designs and implements Okta Customer Identity Cloud solutions for enterprise customers. Leads requirements gathering, discovery workshops, architecture design, technical specifications, project planning, and delivery oversight. Advises customers and executives on IAM, cloud, security, authentication, authorization, and application integration strategies. Supports customer health checks and project reviews while translating business needs into secure, scalable identity solutions.

Lead the multi-year strategy for Auth0’s platform infrastructure, consumption models, rate limiting, monetization, cloud resilience, and AI agent identity capabilities. Drive global scaling, reliability, compliance, and infrastructure economics while aligning Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Go-To-Market teams. Influence senior executives, define platform roadmaps, develop consumption-based pricing strategies, and ensure secure, high-performing infrastructure for enterprise customers.

Develop and maintain automated API, end-to-end, reliability, scale, and performance tests for Okta’s large-scale identity management platform. Create test plans, review requirements and code, architect test tools, collaborate with engineering teams, support high-quality releases, and participate in on-call response for production and customer issues. The role requires expertise in quality engineering, automation development, distributed systems, networking, and secure enterprise software.

Develop and operate scalable cloud-based Privileged Access Management services and shared platforms. Design microservices, infrastructure, and multi-tenant systems using AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and distributed data technologies. Lead code and design reviews, write tests, troubleshoot performance issues, and improve service reliability. Collaborate with architects, QA, product, security, and operations teams while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to weekly releases.

Leads Okta’s AI Takeoff engineering team, translating enterprise customer needs into production AI capabilities. Responsibilities include technical strategy, architecture, roadmap execution, customer escalations, executive customer engagements, cross-functional collaboration, and hiring, mentoring, and managing a high-performing engineering team. The role balances rapid customer-driven delivery with security, reliability, scalability, and long-term product quality.

Lead UI platform and design system strategy across Okta’s product portfolio. Create and document scalable, accessible, localized design patterns; co-own platform roadmaps; align UX and developer experience; improve design processes; mentor designers; and use data and AI insights to guide platform-level decisions. The role requires strong systems thinking, enterprise SaaS design experience, cross-functional partnership, and expertise across interaction, information architecture, visual, and conceptual design.

Own and administer Okta’s enterprise Jira and Confluence ecosystem for a 1,000+ person engineering, product, and design organization. Define tooling strategy, standardize workflows, govern data, automate reporting, integrate AI capabilities, and manage configuration changes. Partner with technical and product leadership to improve engineering processes, enable users, support agile planning, and provide accurate delivery and productivity insights.

Conduct product security reviews, threat modeling, penetration testing, manual code reviews, and architectural assessments. Identify vulnerabilities, lead security incidents, guide engineering teams, build security automation, assess AI and LLM security, mentor junior engineers, and communicate findings through documentation, research, presentations, and publications.

Develop and maintain highly available distributed datastore infrastructure for the Auth0 platform. Build tools enabling teams to deploy and manage datastores, research technologies, improve reliability and security, and lead cross-team initiatives. The role includes design and code reviews, performance analysis, operational improvements, cloud infrastructure management, and participation in an on-call rotation.

Build and evolve Okta’s Identity Security Fabric for AI agents. Responsibilities include developing authorization and policy decision engines, integrating Cedar-based policy authoring, validating delegated identities, implementing audit logging, and delivering secure backend services and frontend interfaces. The role also drives architecture, AI-native development practices, reliability, observability, technical debt reduction, and engineering mentorship while partnering with Product and Design.

Leads the architecture and development of scalable frontend software for Okta’s AI agent access policy platform. Responsibilities include designing and shipping production-grade React and Express applications, testing, monitoring, code reviews, technical debt reduction, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring. The role focuses on secure, high-performance user interfaces and identity-aware access management features for enterprise customers.

Lead the Agent Access Policies engineering team, overseeing performance, career development, hiring, technical strategy, roadmap execution, and cross-functional delivery. Drive secure, scalable agent identity and access policy solutions, emphasizing quality, testing, automation, operational excellence, and AI-enabled software development. Partner with product and technical leaders to deliver least-privilege, runtime-enforced access controls for AI agents and enterprise resources.

Leads Okta’s global paid media and performance marketing organization, defining strategy across search, social, programmatic, ABM, and emerging channels. Owns multimillion-dollar media investment, pipeline contribution, attribution, ROI, agency governance, and executive alignment. Builds global teams and operating models while advancing AI-driven audience modeling, bidding, creative, measurement, and developer acquisition. Partners with marketing, sales, finance, product, analytics, and data engineering teams to connect media investment with revenue and customer acquisition efficiency.

Serve as a trusted technical advisor for enterprise customers using Auth0 and Okta. Design B2B and B2C identity architectures, build proofs of concept, test REST APIs with Postman, troubleshoot integrations, and demonstrate authentication solutions. Provide technical workshops, documentation, code samples, and enablement for developers and architects while advocating for customer needs with product and engineering teams. Some travel is required, including onboarding at the San Francisco or Chicago office.