Senior Developer Support Engineer - Builder Experience (BX)

Okta; Toronto (OH); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (where applicable)

Bonus and benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance

RRSP with match

Job summary

Okta in Toronto is seeking a Senior Developer Support Engineer on the Builder Experience team to help customers and partners seamlessly integrate our secure identity platform. You will own complex issues, reproduce them, and provide robust workarounds and best practices for scale.

You will collaborate with product and engineering, write knowledge articles, and advocate for customers across the ecosystem. In-person orientation and 2 days/week in the Toronto office are required.

Qualifications

• BA/BS/MS in CS, MIS, or related technical discipline with 4+ years of developer support or customer-facing software experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and empathy for developers and customers in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, cloud apps, and modern web frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of complex customer issues and drive to resolution with technical excellence and best customer experience.
• Reproduce issues in a local environment and create accurate bug tickets for Engineering.
• Provide expert guidance with robust workarounds and best practices for developers and partners to integrate at scale.
• Write high-quality knowledge articles for self-service resolution across customers and developer ecosystem.
• Act as a trusted advisor for customers, ISVs, and strategic partners and advocate to product/engineering.
• Channel customer insights back into cross-functional teams to influence product direction.
• Build internal tooling using AI-assisted development tools like Claude.

Skills

C#

Java

Python

JavaScript

Education

BA/BS/MS in CS or related

Tools

Node.js

Django/Flask

ASP.NET

Rails

Claude

OpenAI Codex/Copilot

Job description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

The Role

As a Senior Developer Support Engineer on the Builder Experience team, you are a hands-on technical problem solver passionate about helping Okta’s customers, ISVs, GSIs, and partners seamlessly integrate our secure identity platform.

In this role, you will provide advanced technical assistance, troubleshoot sophisticated issues across Okta SDKs, Okta for AI Agents and protocols such as Cross App Access, OAuth, OIDC, and SCIM recommending robust workarounds and best practices. You own the customer experience and will serve as a key advocate for our customers and partners to our product and engineering teams.

You bring a builder mindset and an AI forward approach spotting recurring patterns in customer issues or internal workflows and building solutions to address them.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Complex Technical Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of sophisticated customer issues and drive to resolution with technical excellence and best customer experience
• Technical reproduction & Triage: Reproduce complex customer issues in a local environment and author accurate bug tickets for Engineering to accelerate resolution.
• Best Practices & Robust Workarounds: Deliver expert technical guidance by recommending robust workarounds and proven best practices to help developers and partners successfully integrate and scale on our platform.
• Knowledge Sharing & Empowerment: Write high-quality knowledge articles for self-service resolution across customers and developer ecosystem.
• Champion Partner & Developer Success: Serve as a trusted technical advisor and relentless advocate for customers, ISVs, and strategic partners navigating our secure identity platform.
• Influence Product & Engineering: Channel real-world customer insights and architectural feedback directly back into cross-functional teams to shape the future of our builder experience.
• Build Proactive Solutions: Leverage a builder mindset and AI native approach to build internal tooling using AI-assisted development tools like Claude.

Requirements:

• Education & Experience: BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, MIS, or a related technical discipline, paired with 4+ years of experience in developer support, technical support, solutions engineering or software development with significant customer facing experience.
• Problem Solving & Advocacy: Deep technical troubleshooting skills paired with strong empathy for developers, advocating for customer success in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Programming Proficiency: Fluency in at least one statically typed language (e.g., C#, C++, Java) and one dynamically typed language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Ruby).
• Web & API Architecture: Hands-on experience supporting or building cloud applications, RESTful APIs, and web frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Django/Flask, ASP.NET, Rails).
• Modern Tech & AI Tooling: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and protocols (e.g., Claude, OpenAI Codex/Copilot, MCP servers).
• Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills across multiple channels (docs, chat, live calls) with the self-direction to work independently or collaborate cross-functionally.

Strongly Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions within enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with modern authentication and authorization protocols (SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0).
• Deep understanding of enterprise SCIM provisioning, including custom schema design, attribute mapping, lifecycle flows, and troubleshooting common failure patterns.
• Proven success building, maintaining, or supporting third-party ISV and technology partner integrations at scale.
• Exposure to modern AI tools and frameworks (e.g., Model Context Protocol / MCP, Claude, OpenAI Codex).
• Experience supporting multi-tier (n-tier) web application architectures.

Must be able to attend in person orientation at the Toronto office on the first Tuesday of employment. Must be able to come into the Toronto office 2 days a week.

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.

$100,000 — $150,000 CAD

The Okta Experience

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