Staff Software Engineer, Agent Gateway

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California; hybrid work with an in-person onboarding experience

Annual base salary: $194,000–$267,000 USD, plus equity where applicable, bonus, and benefits.

Company

Okta provides identity and security infrastructure for organizations and AI-enabled systems.

What you will do

• Architect and deliver gateway capabilities, including virtual MCP server aggregation, agent-to-agent delegation, and on-premises deployment models.
• Own critical parts of the data and control planes, including request routing, token exchange, credential resolution, policy evaluation, configuration bundles, tenant fanout, and operational rollouts.
• Define secure handling of credentials, tokens, tenant isolation, and audit logging for agent runtime traffic.
• Track and influence MCP, OAuth token exchange, and agent identity specifications, incorporating production learnings into specifications and reference implementations.
• Use agentic tools such as Claude Code and MCP-connected agents across design, coding, code review, and operations.
• Raise engineering standards through design reviews, testing, incident retrospectives, technical documentation, and mentoring.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building distributed, highly available production backend systems.
• Production experience with Java and/or Go.
• Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and RFC 8693 token exchange, with the ability to implement specification-driven code.
• Experience shipping identity, authorization, or edge-of-network services at scale.
• Operational experience with rollouts, feature flags, observability, and incident response.
• Strong technical communication, design documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating an MCP server, agent framework, or LLM-facing gateway in production.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms or enterprise identity providers.
• Contributions to MCP, OAuth, GNAP, DCR, or other agent identity standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of product, security, infrastructure, and AI identity.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), flexible spending account, PTO, and parental leave.
• Equity where applicable and performance-based bonus opportunities.
• In-person onboarding and connection across a global community spanning more than 20 offices.