Staff FullStack Engineer

Who you are

• Operates well beyond basic AI tool usage - understands how to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle, can evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment, and is able to establish practices and bring a team along
• Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies - including the ability to make and defend architectural decisions with lasting org-wide impact
• Solid understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals - how auth flows work, and best practices for securing sensitive user data
• Deep expertise in building highly reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software using Java or another type safe programming language
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, with the ability to navigate and contribute to the frontend to unblock feature development
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, with experience designing and operating large-scale services on AWS
• Prior experience leading a team of engineers through a meaningful shift in ways of working - whether around AI adoption, developer tooling, or engineering culture change
• Experience building or maintaining publicly released SDKs used by external developers
• Experience in one of the following areas is preferred: developing Identity and Access Management (IAM) tooling and contributing to a "zero-to-one" startup-like team

What the job involves

• The Okta Secures AI Team is building the future of digital identity management
• The way companies are using agents and allowing them access is undergoing a fundamental shift, enabling teams to move fast while staying secure
• Our North Star is clear: To get AI right, you have to get identity right
• We are not just managing identities; we are building the industry's first Identity Security Fabric for the agentic era
• As organizations rapidly deploy AI, these non-human entities are acting with access to critical tools, often bypassing traditional perimeters and creating a 'Shadow AI' crisis
• Our mission is to move identity from a reactive gatekeeper to a unified control plane, transforming AI risk into business ROI
• We are tackling this by implementing a comprehensive four-pillar maturity model: Discover, Onboard, Protect, and Govern
• We are driving innovation by defining the standards for Agent Identity—including pioneer work with the AI Agent Tool Registry and support for protocols like MCP and IPSIE
• You will be helping us build the infrastructure that allows enterprises to scale AI safely, ensuring every access decision—whether made by a human or an automated agent—is authenticated, authorized, and audited at scale
• As a Staff Fullstack Engineer on the Okta Secures AI team, your mission is to build the industry's first Identity Security Fabric for the agentic era
• You are the architect of our unified control plane, ensuring that we operationalize our North Star: "To get AI right, you have to get identity right."
• You will lead the technical implementation of our four-pillar maturity model—Discover, Onboard, Protect, and Govern—to provide enterprise-grade visibility and governance for both human and non-human identities
• By architecting solutions that move beyond reactive perimeter security, you will empower organizations to prevent "Shadow AI" and transform AI risk into business ROI
• This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems and a commitment to AI-native engineering as our standard
• You will rethink backend design, validation, and delivery through AI-augmented workflows, ensuring our platform provides secure, interoperable, and scalable access—enforcing the principle of least privilege for every agent action
• Proactively shape the technical strategy of the Identity Security Fabric, partnering with leadership to prioritize open standards like IPSIE
• Govern and monitor agentic behavior by implementing the four-pillar maturity model across our fullstack ecosystems
• Architect for the agentic era, ensuring systems can discover and secure all agents, including "Shadow AI" assets
• Enforce secure access and least privilege for agents through capabilities like Agent Gateways and short-lived credentials
• Drive continual evolution in the adoption of AI-native development practices, helping the team rethink how we design, review, and ship software with AI as a core part of the workflow
• Proactively identify and prioritize tech debt; drive improvements in areas beyond feature work - CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes
• Partner with Product and Design to understand and own the desired customer outcome, not just the technical deliverable
• Actively invest in the growth of peer engineers, taking responsibility for raising the technical bar of the team as a whole

Benefits

• Work from home opportunities
• Health + Wellness
• Financial Benefits
• Pay + Incentives
• Time Off
• Everyday Living
• Resources