Senior IAM & Cloud Systems Architect

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 274,000 - 370,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Okta in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a seasoned Engineering Architect to guide the technical direction for secure, scalable identity systems and AI-enabled features. You will lead architecture decisions, collaborate with Product, Security and Engineering, and mentor teams while contributing hands-on coding in Node.js and Go.

You will work across AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, and modern databases to ensure reliability and performance, driving initiatives that elevate Auth0’s platform and developer

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience working on cloud applications.
• Experience with API-first applications using REST and/or gRPC.
• Passion and thorough understanding of building secure, reliable systems at scale.
• Knowledge of OAuth, OIDC and SAML.
• Industry knowledge of IAM/security in distributed systems.
• Experience building AI Agents or MCP servers applications.
• Security engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering to define and improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture.
• Foster and lead innovation in IAM space, with focus on Agentic Identity.
• Lead initiatives to enhance, scale, and evolve product offerings.
• Embed within Engineering teams for large projects, while guiding smaller initiatives.
• Design, architect, and document large-scale distributed systems.
• Lead development of complex functionality across services.
• Teach by doing: coding, optimizing, and troubleshooting Node.js and Go applications.
• Implement features using AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
• Investigate bottlenecks to scale and maintain 99.99% uptime.
• Drive technical decision making balancing simplicity, reliability, cost, and performance.
• Mentor engineers and participate in Engineering Leadership Team.

Skills

10+ years software development

5+ years cloud applications

API-first applications (REST/gRPC)

OAuth/OIDC/SAML knowledge

Identity & security expertise

Node.js

Go

Multi-cloud (AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes

Application security

Tools

Node.js

Go

AWS

Azure

MongoDB

Redis

PostgreSQL

Job description

Okta in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a seasoned Engineering Architect to guide the technical direction for secure, scalable identity systems and AI-enabled features. You will lead architecture decisions, collaborate with Product, Security and Engineering, and mentor teams while contributing hands-on coding in Node.js and Go.

You will work across AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, and modern databases to ensure reliability and performance, driving initiatives that elevate Auth0’s platform and developer