Okta
Sr. Software Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure
$165K–$227K
San Francisco, California +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California
San Francisco, CA, United States
About the job
Build and operate Python backend services and AWS infrastructure that power autonomous identity-operations agents, with an emphasis on reliable execution, tenant security, analytics, and safe production changes.
What you'll do
- Build backend services, data models, connectors, and durable workflows for agent operations.
- Develop analytics, usage reconciliation, deployment automation, observability, and production reliability controls.
- Implement secure, auditable changes to external systems, including tenant isolation, approvals, backups, and recovery testing.
What they ask for
- Production backend or distributed-systems experience and strong Python or comparable-language skills.
- Hands-on AWS experience with APIs, queues, containers, networking, IAM, and databases.
- Strong SQL and data-modeling skills, including database performance and asynchronous failure diagnosis.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability, and production incident response.
Nice to have
- ClickHouse, BigQuery, or comparable analytics systems; event ingestion and usage metering.
- Multi-tenant SaaS, identity protocols or connectors, or agent frameworks such as Claude Agent SDK, Codex SDK, Strands Agents, Deep Agents, or LangGraph.
Pay
$165,000 — $226,600 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python FastAPI, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS PostgreSQL, pgvector
AI focus
Build infrastructure and model API access for autonomous identity-operation agents, including integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, and supported AWS paths; agent harness and analytics choices remain open.
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