Sr. Software Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure

Location: San Francisco, California; salary range applies to candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area

Annual base salary: $165,000–$226,600 USD

Company

Okta builds identity and security infrastructure, including autonomous Digital Workers for identity operations and security.

What you will do

• Build Python FastAPI services, data models, and reusable connectors for Okta, AWS, ServiceNow, and enterprise applications.
• Implement durable workflow execution with Step Functions, SQS, and EventBridge, including approval waits, rate limits, duplicate events, and safe retries.
• Manage PostgreSQL schemas, indexes, query performance, pgvector retrieval, and tenant isolation across APIs, storage, and credentials.
• Build model API access for OpenAI, Anthropic, and supported AWS paths with credential, quota, timeout, and cost controls.
• Develop analytics, usage reconciliation, observability, deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, and safe release controls.
• Implement scoped write services, kill switches, audit retention, backup recovery, and failure tests that verify sensitive changes.

Requirements

• Production backend or distributed-systems experience with strong Python or comparable-language coding skills.
• Hands-on AWS experience with APIs, queues, containers, networking, IAM, and databases.
• Strong SQL and data-modeling skills, including database-performance diagnosis and asynchronous-system troubleshooting.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability, and production incident response.
• Sound judgment when handling customer data, tenant isolation, credentials, and safe changes to external systems.
• Senior-level ownership of a backend or platform component, including deployment, testing, and production operation.

Nice to have

• ClickHouse, BigQuery, comparable analytics systems, event ingestion, and usage metering.
• Multi-tenant SaaS, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, or enterprise connector development.
• Experience deploying agent frameworks such as Claude Agent SDK, Codex SDK, Strands Agents, Deep Agents, or LangGraph.
• Prior identity experience is optional.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup-like ownership and pace with the resources of a public company, working with the team responsible for Digital Workers.
• In-person onboarding is provided from the first day.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k); flexible spending account; and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
• Equity and bonus may be available according to applicable plans and policies.
• Okta supports well-being, social impact, talent development, connection, and community.