Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Talent, Data, & Intelligence Team
Okta’s Technology, Data, & Intelligence organization is on a mission to simplify and secure internal operations through automation, analysis, and scale. Our Productivity Engineering team is responsible for developing internal tooling, infrastructure and services that empower Okta employees to work as effectively as possible.
We work across engineering, data science, security, and internal business teams to deliver automation-powered services that integrate across a wide array of SAAS apps and internally developed infrastructure to Okta. A growing focus for our team has been an investment of cycles into AI agentic platforms, workflow orchestration, and data analytic dashboarding. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving tough problems and building with purpose.
The Staff Engineer, Agentic Platform Opportunity
Reporting to the VP, Engineering Shared Services, this role will help design and scale our Agentic AI Platform — the foundation that enables enterprise teams to build, deploy, and manage intelligent AI agents securely and at scale.
As part of a global AI engineering team spanning the US and India, you’ll lead technical direction, contribute hands-on code, and mentor peers while shaping platform capabilities that empower applied AI use cases across Okta.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead the design and development of platform services for AI agents, including orchestration, lifecycle management, observability, and guardrails.
- Partner with US and India engineering peers to define shared architecture and ensure globally aligned delivery.
- Build scalable APIs and frameworks that allow teams to rapidly create and deploy secure AI agents.
- Implement monitoring, evaluation, and governance features that ensure AI adoption is safe, reliable, and compliant.
- Collaborate with Applied AI engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure the platform supports real-world use cases.
- Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and contribute to setting best practices for AI platform development.
- Stay ahead of trends in agentic AI, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI infrastructure.
What you’ll bring to the role
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in AI/ML platforms or intelligent automation.
- Deep expertise in AI agent frameworks, orchestration, vector search, RAG pipelines, and monitoring/observability.
- Strong background in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), APIs, Python and microservices
- Hands-on experience building secure, enterprise-grade infrastructure for AI or ML workloads.
- Proven ability to drive architecture decisions and influence platform strategy.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across time zones and global teams.
Why join us?
At Okta, you’ll help shape the platform foundations that make enterprise AI possible — from secure orchestration to intelligent guardrails. Your work will directly enable applied AI use cases that impact thousands of employees and customers, while ensuring AI adoption is smarter, faster, and always secure. As part of a global engineering team, you’ll collaborate with peers in the US and India, making an impact at scale.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California. 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.
Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. 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.
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
Okta 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.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at https://www.okta.com/legal/personnel-policy/.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
