Staff Software Engineer, AI Frameworks and Services

Okta, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 139,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Frameworks and Services team, where you'll shape the future of AI-powered products. Collaborate with talented engineers to build and maintain core infrastructure for intelligent features, enhancing user experiences across a diverse product ecosystem. This role offers the chance to work on impactful projects while driving innovation in AI, ensuring security and reliability. With a dynamic work environment and a focus on employee empowerment, this opportunity is perfect for those passionate about technology and making a difference in the digital world.

Benefits

Amazing Benefits

Making Social Impact

Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in large-scale systems or services.
• Passion for building secure and scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and document large-scale distributed systems.
• Implement features using AWS, Azure, Node.js, and more.

Skills

Node.js

Go

Application Security

Cloud Security Best Practices

API-driven Applications

Collaboration

Tools

AWS

Azure

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, AI Frameworks and Services

Toronto, Canada

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Team

Have you ever considered what powers the intelligent features behind seamless product experiences? The AI Frameworks and Services team is at the forefront of enabling AI-driven innovation across our organization. We build the foundational frameworks and essential services that empower engineering teams to integrate cutting-edge AI capabilities into our products, transforming how our users interact with them. From crafting intuitive generative AI-powered chat experiences that provide instant product support, to developing the best developer experience around authentication for generative AI and AI agents, as well as implementing intelligent security features, our team is instrumental in bringing the transformative power of AI to life. We collaborate closely with the Machine Learning team and various product teams to ensure the seamless and secure delivery of AI-enhanced features that provide real value to our users.

The Opportunity

As a member of the AI Frameworks and Services team, you will be a key contributor in shaping the future of AI-powered products within our organization. You will be instrumental in building and maintaining the core infrastructure that enables the development and deployment of intelligent features at scale. This team plays a critical role in accelerating the adoption of AI, ensuring its security and reliability, and ultimately enhancing the user experience across our entire product ecosystem. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging and impactful projects, collaborating with talented engineers and researchers to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI.

What you will do:

• Design, architect, and document large scale distributed systems.
• Implement features across different layers of the stack using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
• Drive technical decision making while striving to hit the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, and performance.
• Contribute to improving Auth0's architecture, performance, observability, security controls, and best practices.
• Collaborate with Product and Security teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s Extensibility platform and architecture.

What you bring:

• Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable, and scalable distributed systems. (Node.js and/or Go preferred)
• Solid understanding of application security and cloud security best practices, especially around the security and challenges presented with AI.
• Exposure to API-driven applications using RESTful and/or gRPC.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments.
• Proven ability to collaborate with others to drive initiatives forward.
• 7+ years of experience working on large-scale systems or services.

Nice To Haves:

• Experience with Auth0.
• Experience with generative AI.
• Experience with packaging and distributing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with system design principles and best practices.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $139,000 — $209,000 CAD.

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today!

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran.