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Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.\nThis is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.\nThe Software Architect Opportunity\nThe team that built Jeeva AI is building Digital Workers, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security inside Okta. The team works directly with Todd McKinnon, Okta's co-founder and CEO, with the opportunity to bring this product to Okta's 20,000+ customers. You will help shape the product with the ownership and pace of a startup and the resources of a public company.\nWe are hiring two hands-on architects. One will lead agent execution, harnesses and evaluations. The other will lead backend services, integrations, data and platform reliability. You will write critical code, resolve cross-team decisions and work with engineers through production rollout.\nAbout You\nHands-on builder: You still write production code and test important decisions through implementation.\nPractical architect: You choose a small, clear design and make it easy to extend when the product grows.\nTrusted partner: You earn confidence through useful code, clear feedback and customer understanding.\nWhat you will be doing\nDefine and implement shared contracts for tasks, events, permissions, approvals, evidence and usage.\nSet clear boundaries between model reasoning, agent harnesses, durable workflows and services that enforce authorization.\nSelect a harness through representative identity tasks, failure tests and operational evidence. Keep model providers and harness components replaceable.\nDesign integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, including data boundaries, latency, cost, version changes and measured release quality.\nBuild reference services for tenant isolation, scoped tool execution, idempotency, long approval waits and verified results.\nDefine the transactional and analytics data architecture. Keep PostgreSQL application state separate from the planned ClickHouse or BigQuery analytics layer.\nConnect Product, Applied AI and Platform engineers through clear ownership and practical APIs. Resolve dependencies that slow delivery.\nWrite critical implementations, review recovery and security, and guide technical leads through production rollout and customer expansion.\nWhat you will bring to the role\nA record of leading architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams, with recent production code you personally implemented.\nDeep knowledge of distributed services, API design, data consistency, cloud security and production operations.\nExperience making systems simpler while improving reliability, security or delivery speed.\nThe ability to explain design tradeoffs, guide senior engineers and remain accountable through implementation.\nDepth in at least one of the two role areas below, plus the ability to work across the full product.\nRole focus\nAI systems architect: Build and evaluate agent harnesses, context management, model integrations and quality controls. Relevant experience includes Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Codex SDK, Strands Agents, LangChain Deep Agents, LangGraph or a comparable custom runtime.\nPlatform architect: Lead backend, connector, security, data and workflow architecture. Bring deep production systems experience and practical knowledge of integrating model-driven workflows.\nOur stack\nPython FastAPI, React and TypeScript, AWS Amplify, Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge and API Gateway. Storage uses RDS PostgreSQL, pgvector and S3. Security and operations include KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch and CloudTrail.\nWe are adding OpenAI and Anthropic model API integrations. An agent harness and a dedicated analytics layer using ClickHouse or BigQuery are planned. You will help choose and implement them.\nAnd extra credit for\nEnterprise identity, security products, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM or complex customer integrations.\nClickHouse, BigQuery, agent evaluations, post-training systems or open-source infrastructure.\nBuilding a new product within a larger enterprise and keeping technical decisions reversible.\nP26077_3596436\n#LI-Inperson \n#LI- RW1\nBelow is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit:https://rewards.okta.com/us. \nThe annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:\n$274,000—$376,200 USD\nThe Okta Experience\nSupporting Your Well-Being \nDriving Social Impact \nDeveloping Talent and Fostering Connection + Community\nWe are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.\nOkta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.\nIf reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.\nNotice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. 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