Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform

About the Position

Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform

San Francisco, California

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. 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.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 below, plus the ability to work across the full product.

Role focus

AI 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.

Platform architect: Lead backend, connector, security, data, and workflow architecture. Bring deep production systems experience and practical knowledge of integrating model-driven workflows.

Our Stack

• Programming Languages: Python, FastAPI
• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• Cloud Services: AWS Amplify, Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway
• Storage: RDS PostgreSQL, pgvector, S3
• Security and Operations: KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail

We 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $274,000-$376,200 USD
• Equity, bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).

About the Company

Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over [site_settings:copy--global_tokens--field_number_of_integrations] pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than [site_settings:copy--global_tokens--field_number_of_customers] organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.

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