Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

The Software Architect Opportunity

The 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, bringing 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.

We 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.

What You Will Be Doing

• Define and implement shared contracts for tasks, events, permissions, approvals, evidence, and usage.
• Set clear boundaries between model reasoning, agent harnesses, durable workflows, and services that enforce authorization.
• Select a harness through representative identity tasks, failure tests, and operational evidence. Keep model providers and harness components replaceable.
• Design integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, including data boundaries, latency, cost, version changes, and measured release quality.
• Build reference services for tenant isolation, scoped tool execution, idempotency, long approval waits, and verified results.
• Define the transactional and analytics data architecture. Keep PostgreSQL application state separate from the planned ClickHouse or BigQuery analytics layer.
• Connect Product, Applied AI, and Platform engineers through clear ownership and practical APIs. Resolve dependencies that slow delivery.
• Write critical implementations, review recovery and security, and guide technical leads through production rollout and customer expansion.

What You Will Bring to the Role

• A record of leading architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams, with recent production code you personally implemented.
• Deep knowledge of distributed services, API design, data consistency, cloud security, and production operations.
• Experience making systems simpler while improving reliability, security, or delivery speed.
• The ability to explain design tradeoffs, guide senior engineers, and remain accountable through implementation.
• Depth in at least one of the two role areas (AI systems architect or Platform architect), plus the ability to work across the full product.

Extra Credit

• Enterprise identity, security products, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, or complex customer integrations.
• ClickHouse, BigQuery, agent evaluations, post-training systems, or open-source infrastructure.
• Building a new product within a larger enterprise and keeping technical decisions reversible.