Principal Platform Engineer — AI Identity & Scale

Okta; Toronto; On-site; CAD 184,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health insurance

RRSP match

Paid leave

Job summary

Okta is hiring a Principal Engineer for the Developer Platform team (Auth0). You will own the platform’s architecture, tackle complex, vaguely specified problems, and drive the technical direction that ensures scale, reliability, and coherence across developer and agent usage.

You’ll mentor peers and align across teams to keep the platform robust as adoption grows. The role emphasizes ownership in ambiguity, strong Node.js fundamentals, and cross-functional collaboration with product and

Qualifications

• Ten+ years in software engineering, with principal or staff-level track record.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale backend and event-driven systems.
• Experience designing and shipping platforms at scale, with coherent interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform architecture and cross-cutting decisions to keep the developer platform coherent and scalable.
• Architect for scale by designing distributed systems for throughput, reliability, and consistency.
• Turn vague platform problems into clear, modular technical designs the team can execute.
• Design for developers and agents so both can build and automate on Auth0-based platform.
• Raise engineering bar and lead deep reviews to grow the team.

Skills

Platform architecture

Distributed systems

IAM platform thinking

Ownership in ambiguity

Node.js fundamentals

Agent-aware design

Cross-functional collaboration

Platform thinking

Tools

Node.js

Go

Job description

Okta is hiring a Principal Engineer for the Developer Platform team (Auth0). You will own the platform’s architecture, tackle complex, vaguely specified problems, and drive the technical direction that ensures scale, reliability, and coherence across developer and agent usage.

You’ll mentor peers and align across teams to keep the platform robust as adoption grows. The role emphasizes ownership in ambiguity, strong Node.js fundamentals, and cross-functional collaboration with product and