Okta
Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform
$274K–$376K
San Francisco, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California
San Francisco, CA, United States
About the job
Lead architecture and hands-on implementation for autonomous AI agents and the backend platform that supports identity operations and security.
What you'll do
- Define shared contracts and system boundaries for agent execution, workflows, authorization, data, and integrations.
- Build and evaluate agent harnesses or backend services, integrations, and data architecture, depending on role focus.
- Write critical production code, resolve cross-team decisions, and guide security, reliability, and production rollout.
What they ask for
- Record of leading architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams, including recent production code personally implemented.
- Deep knowledge of distributed services, API design, data consistency, cloud security, and production operations.
- Experience simplifying systems while improving reliability, security, or delivery speed.
- Depth in AI systems or platform architecture, with ability to work across the full product.
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.
Pay
$274,000 — $376,200 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python FastAPI, React, TypeScript, AWS Amplify, Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lambda, PostgreSQL
AI focus
Build and evaluate autonomous agent harnesses, context management, model integrations, and quality controls; integrate OpenAI and Anthropic APIs and help select a planned harness and analytics layer.
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