Staff Backend Engineer, AI-Core Platform

Okta; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Flexible spending account

Paid leave including PTO and parental leave

Job summary

Okta in San Francisco is seeking a skilled engineer to design and implement a scalable agentic AI platform. This role involves working on complex challenges like agent identity and secure isolated execution.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of software engineering experience, proficiency in backend languages such as Python or TypeScript, and exposure to AI/ML applications. Join us to create foundational technology that empowers agents across Okta's infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production backend systems.
• 1+ years of exposure to AI/ML or agentic applications.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend APIs and services for the agentic platform.
• Build the agent identity and machine-to-machine authentication systems.
• Collaborate with Product, SRE, Security, and other teams.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Backend languages (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go)

Distributed systems design

AI/ML exposure

Security-conscious mindset

Comfort in ambiguous environments

Education

5+ years of experience building production backend systems

Tools

APIs

Microservices

Serverless technologies

Job description

Okta in San Francisco is seeking a skilled engineer to design and implement a scalable agentic AI platform. This role involves working on complex challenges like agent identity and secure isolated execution.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of software engineering experience, proficiency in backend languages such as Python or TypeScript, and exposure to AI/ML applications. Join us to create foundational technology that empowers agents across Okta's infrastructure.