Currently tracking 14 active AI roles, down 17% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $165k–$374k (avg $235k).
Okta currently has 33 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 88%, are focused on agents. Engineering is the dominant function, with 26 positions, followed by Product with 7. The company is hiring for these roles primarily in the United States, India, and Canada. Frequently mentioned tech tags include agent_orchestration, llm_observability, and rag. In the last 30 days, Okta has posted 16 new AI roles, representing a 700% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Okta currently has 34 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Manager, Retention Strategy & Intelligence (5), Engineering Architect, Application (Auth0) (2), Staff Product Security Engineer, Reviews (2), Staff Software Engineer (2), Staff Software Engineer, AI Agentic Experience (Auth0) (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Okta's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (91%), data (6%), serving infrastructure (3%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Okta is hiring AI talent in: United States (18 roles), India (8 roles), Canada (5 roles), United Kingdom (1 role).
Job postings at Okta most frequently reference: agent orchestration, guardrails, llm observability, rag, tool use.
In the past 30 days, Okta has posted 12 new AI-related roles. That is a -25% change versus the prior 30 days (16 → 12).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer, AI Framework & Services Senior Software Engineer to build backend systems, APIs, and services for AI agent identity and authorization within Okta's Auth0 organization. The role focuses on enabling developers to integrate identity and access controls into agentic systems, treating agents as principals with accountability. This is an early-stage, high-ownership role focused on defining product capabilities at the intersection of identity, security, and AI. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer, AI (Web & Data) Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture and evolution of Okta's hybrid digital ecosystem, focusing on the strategic integration of multi-modal AI into core infrastructure and architecting an omnichannel platform. The role involves designing autonomous pipelines, establishing standards for RAG, vector databases, and LLM orchestration, and migrating legacy data pipelines to AI-native architectures. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Software Engineer II, Security Engineering (Auth0) Software Engineer II for Auth0 Security Engineering at Okta, focusing on building and maintaining security guardrails for a multi-cloud environment. The role involves implementing security and compliance standards as code, managing IAM, and contributing to infrastructure security. A key aspect is exploring the application of AI to streamline security tasks and governance. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Technical Account Manager Okta is seeking a Sr. Technical Account Manager to serve as a highly technical overlay resource for new product introductions, focusing on building architectural blueprints and driving early-stage adoption of Okta's newest and most complex capabilities, particularly in the context of AI security and identity. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Okta is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Device Identity and Access organization. This role focuses on building and securing the infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace AI. The engineer will lead the design and implementation of new features, define architectural vision, and champion AI-native engineering practices within the product development lifecycle, utilizing AI coding assistants. The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, Java, Spring, and security concepts related to endpoints. | — | 5 |
| Staff Product Security Engineer, Reviews Okta is seeking a Staff Product Security Engineer to safeguard their products, focusing on securing AI and LLMs. The role involves conducting security reviews, penetration testing, architectural assessments, and developing security tools. While AI is a focus, the core craft is product security engineering, not direct AI model development. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Apple Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Device Authenticators engineering team. The role involves architecting, building, and scaling client application software and services for Okta's security and identity platform, with a focus on iOS/macOS using Swift. The engineer will also mentor other engineers and champion AI-native engineering practices. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Auth0) Senior Software Engineer role at Okta (Auth0) focused on identity security for AI. The role involves designing and building secure, performant, cross-platform browser-based features, collaborating with product and design, and contributing across the full technical stack. Familiarity with AI agent frameworks, orchestration tools, or the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is required, with exposure to agentic application patterns being helpful. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Identity Threat Protection Staff Software Engineer role at Okta focused on building and scaling AI-powered Identity Threat Protection products. The role involves architecting, developing, and delivering cloud-native security solutions that analyze user behavior and system data to proactively identify and neutralize threats. It emphasizes strong software engineering practices, collaboration, and mentoring within a fast-paced, innovative environment. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, End User Protection (Auth0) Senior Software Engineer role at Okta (Auth0) focused on building and maintaining Attack Protection capabilities for identity and access management. The role involves designing and building features using Node.js, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, collaborating with ML/AI teams on detection models, and ensuring service reliability and security at scale. The position emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with product and security stakeholders. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, End User Protection (Auth0) Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their End User Protection team, focusing on building and maintaining attack protection capabilities for the Auth0 platform. This role involves designing and implementing features using Node.js, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, collaborating with ML/AI teams on detection models, and ensuring high-scale service operation. The position requires strong technical leadership, system design, security best practices, and mentoring skills. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Tenant Protection (Auth0) Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining Auth0's Attack Protection capabilities, which involves securing customer tenants from automated attacks like credential stuffing and denial-of-service. The role collaborates with Machine Learning and AI teams to develop and deploy detection models, and requires strong software engineering skills in Node.js, cloud environments (AWS/Azure), and distributed systems. The primary focus is on the security product itself, which is an AI-enabled product. | — | 5 |
| Staff Full Stack Engineer Okta is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer to join their Digital Technology team. The role involves building and owning the infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace AI. The engineer will work on front-end interfaces, CMS environments, and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on user experience and optimizing systems. A key aspect of the role is experimenting with and leveraging AI tools and agentic workflows to improve developer productivity and prototype new features. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer in Test, Linux Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Test to focus on quality assurance for their Linux desktop and mobile applications, which are crucial for securing AI and human identities. The role involves developing and maintaining test automation, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the readiness of Okta Verify on the Linux platform. While the company is heavily involved in AI security, this specific role is focused on the testing infrastructure of their core identity products. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer in Test, iOS Okta is looking for a Staff Software Engineer in Test to join their iOS platform team, focusing on the Okta Verify app and SDKs. The role involves defining and owning the iOS test automation strategy, building test automation frameworks, and ensuring robust, secure releases. While the company discusses AI's potential and Okta's role in securing it, this specific position is centered on traditional mobile application testing and quality assurance, not on building or directly working with AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II, Core Identity (Auth0) Software Engineer II, Core Identity (Auth0) at Okta. This role focuses on building and operating critical services for Okta's identity platform, primarily using NodeJS (TypeScript/JavaScript) with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis on a multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure). The position emphasizes designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale, ensuring technical quality, security, reliability, and scalability. While the company discusses AI's potential, this specific role is centered on core identity and access management infrastructure, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer at Okta to join the Identity Governance and Administration (OIG) team. The role involves development, design, and maintenance of enterprise-grade software for access governance, focusing on security, scalability, and reliability. The engineer will take end-to-end ownership of feature areas, design and ship production-ready features, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Engineer, Golang Okta is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to work on their Privileged Access Management (PAM) team, focusing on building secure, scalable, and composable components for their identity platform. The role involves evolving core architecture, designing APIs, working with Go, and participating in on-call rotations. Experience with distributed systems, relational databases, and cloud services is required. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Performance & Resilience (Auth0) Engineering Manager for Performance & Resilience at Okta (Auth0) responsible for driving performance and resiliency improvements for the Auth0 product. This role involves building testing infrastructure, frameworks, tooling, and realistic datasets for performance testing, load testing, and chaos engineering. The manager will lead a global team, focusing on software quality, architecture, and ensuring the product remains performant at scale. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Android Device Authenticators Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Android Device Authenticators team. This role focuses on building foundational authentication and authorization services for Okta-protected resources, specifically on Android client software. The engineer will lead design, development, and delivery of cloud-native security products, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure high programming standards through code reviews and testing. Experience with Android development, Kotlin, and security engineering is required, with a preference for knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Auth0) Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Okta (Auth0) focused on ensuring the reliability, resiliency, and scalability of production systems that support AI initiatives. The role involves designing and building custom software in Go, partnering with engineering teams to embed reliability principles, and contributing to SRE tooling and processes. This position requires strong software engineering and operational expertise, proficiency in Go, experience with cloud providers, Kubernetes, and SRE principles. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Platform App Services Staff Software Engineer for Okta's Platform App Services team, focusing on backend systems, technical strategy, architectural leadership, complexity reduction, and operational excellence. The role involves leading the design and evolution of Golang-based, Postgres-backed distributed systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance for identity solutions that secure AI and human access. | — | 0 |
| Senior Platform Engineer, Runtime (Auth0) Okta is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and maintain the foundational infrastructure for the Auth0 platform, focusing on distributed systems, availability, and customer value. The role involves advanced Kubernetes troubleshooting, defining Terraform standards, managing deployment standards with Kustomize, orchestrating GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, architecting a testing automation framework, overseeing control plane infrastructure, and leading service mesh architecture. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, proficiency in Golang, deep understanding of Kubernetes, and DevOps experience with cloud-native technologies. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Passwordless Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Passwordless team. This role involves technical leadership in building secure and seamless authentication solutions, focusing on passkeys and FIDO2 WebAuthn. The engineer will own features end-to-end, mentor others, and drive technical direction for a large user base. The role emphasizes building scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems within the identity and access management domain, with a strong connection to enabling AI adoption through secure identity infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Device Identity Staff Software Engineer role at Okta focused on Device Identity and Access, building and scaling server-side software and services for their security and identity platform. The role involves leading design and implementation, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices in a Java/Spring environment. While the company is involved in securing AI, this specific role is not directly building AI models or systems, but rather foundational infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Platform Senior Software Engineer - Platform role at Okta focused on building and maintaining internal tools and automation to enhance developer productivity and streamline engineering efforts. The role emphasizes building scalable solutions, automating workflows, and ensuring the reliability of shared utilities within a Tier-0 global service environment. While the company is focused on securing AI, this specific role is about building the platform infrastructure that supports it, not directly building AI models or agents. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Platform Streaming (Auth0) Software Engineer role focused on building and operating data pipeline infrastructure for event streaming, messaging, and analytics use cases within Okta's Auth0 platform. The role emphasizes distributed systems, platform engineering, and solving data-intensive problems at scale, with a focus on foundational infrastructure to support future scaling. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Delegated Administration (Auth0) Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Auth0 team, focusing on building and scaling identity and access management solutions that secure AI and human interactions. The role involves driving architectural vision, implementing technical improvements, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product teams to deliver new enterprise functionality for SaaS customers. The position requires strong experience in distributed systems, Node.js, SQL databases, and cloud environments, with a focus on security and scalability. | — | 0 |