Senior AI Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

Okta Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Flexible spending account

Paid leave (PTO and parental leave)

Job summary

Okta Inc. is building Digital Workers, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security.

You will help shape the product with startup‑like ownership and Okta’s resources, contributing to a reliable backend and AWS platform that runs around the clock. You will write Python services and infrastructure code to enable workers to make approved changes with auditable evidence while collaborating with a mission‑driven team.

Qualifications

• Production backend or distributed systems experience with Python.
• Hands-on AWS experience with APIs, queues, containers, networking, IAM and databases.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills; diagnose database performance issues.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment automation and observability.
• Sound judgment about customer data, tenant isolation and safe changes.

Responsibilities

• Build Python FastAPI services, data models and reusable connectors for Okta, AWS, ServiceNow and enterprise apps.
• Implement durable execution with Step Functions, SQS and EventBridge; handle approvals, rate limits and retries.
• Manage PostgreSQL schemas, indexes and performance; enforce tenant isolation across APIs and storage.
• Build model API access for OpenAI, Anthropic and AWS paths with credentials and quotas.
• Add an analytics pipeline for worker events, traces and outcomes; evaluate ClickHouse/BigQuery.
• Create reliable usage records and reconciliation; prevent duplicate entries from counting as new outcomes.
• Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability and safe release controls.
• Implement scoped write services, audit retention and backup recovery; verify changes took effect.

Skills

Python

AWS

SQL

Distributed systems

API design

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQS

EventBridge

Docker

Job description

Okta Inc. is building Digital Workers, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security.

You will help shape the product with startup‑like ownership and Okta’s resources, contributing to a reliable backend and AWS platform that runs around the clock. You will write Python services and infrastructure code to enable workers to make approved changes with auditable evidence while collaborating with a mission‑driven team.