Okta
Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure
$194K–$267K
San Francisco, California +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California
San Francisco, CA, United States
About the job
Build and operate the backend services and AWS infrastructure that power autonomous identity-operations workers, including reliable execution, data handling, analytics, and safe production changes.
What you'll do
- Build Python services, data models, connectors, and durable workflows for identity operations.
- Develop tenant-isolated data systems, model API access, analytics, usage records, and reconciliation.
- Own deployment, observability, reliability, audit, and recovery controls across production systems.
What they ask for
- Production backend or distributed-systems experience and strong coding skills in Python or a comparable language.
- Hands-on AWS experience with APIs, queues, containers, networking, IAM, and databases.
- Strong SQL and data-modeling skills, including diagnosing database performance and asynchronous failures.
- 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, enterprise connectors, identity protocols, or agent frameworks.
Pay
$194,000 — $267,300 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python FastAPI, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS PostgreSQL, pgvector
AI focus
Build autonomous identity-operations workers, including model API integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, and supported AWS paths; agent harness and analytics choices are still open.
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