Staff Backend Software Engineer (SecureAI)

Location: Hybrid in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Annual base salary: CAD 160,000–220,000, plus potential equity, bonus, and benefits.

Company

Okta builds identity and access management infrastructure, including security solutions for AI agents and enterprise systems.

What you will do

• Shape the technical strategy for the Identity Security Fabric and secure AI-agent access.
• Build runtime policy decision points that evaluate agent requests against per-agent, per-tool, and per-resource rules.
• Design policy authoring, schema validation, and evaluation workflows connecting no-code administration tools with API-published policies.
• Validate delegated-agent representation rights and securely forward acting-user identities to downstream resources.
• Develop comprehensive audit logging for authorization decisions and contribute to MCP, OAuth token exchange, and agent identity specifications.
• Improve AI-native development practices, CI/CD, observability, reliability, documentation, and engineering capability across the team.

Requirements

• Experience defining scalable backend architectures and making architectural decisions with lasting organizational impact.
• Deep expertise building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade backend software in Java or another type-safe language.
• Strong understanding of web authentication, authorization, and secure handling of sensitive user data.
• Ability to apply AI meaningfully across the software development lifecycle and establish effective AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Ability to work in a hybrid role based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Nice to have

• Experience with identity, authorization, or IAM protocols such as OAuth, OIDC, or SAML.
• Experience with agent frameworks, AI-facing APIs, or LLM developer toolchains.
• Experience leading engineers through changes in AI adoption, developer tooling, or engineering culture.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person onboarding designed to accelerate impact and connect new hires with the team.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• RRSP matching, healthcare spending support, telemedicine, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
• Potential equity and bonus compensation where applicable.
• Opportunities to develop talent, build community, and contribute to social impact initiatives.