Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform

Okta Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $274,000–$376,200 / yr
Posted: 4 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

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TL;DR · Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform

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The Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform joins the team developing Digital Workers, a suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security. This role involves building and evaluating agent harnesses, context management, and model integrations, or leading backend services, connector, security, and data architecture. You will write production code, define shared contracts for tasks and permissions, and design integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Key responsibilities include building reference services for tenant isolation and idempotency while managing transactional data architecture. The technical stack includes Python FastAPI, React, TypeScript, AWS Amplify, Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, and API Gateway. You will utilize RDS PostgreSQL, pgvector, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail to solve complex identity and security problems.

Skills

Python FastAPI TypeScript React AWS Amazon Bedrock Lambda SQS EventBridge API Gateway PostgreSQL pgvector S3 ClickHouse BigQuery LangChain LangGraph Anthropic API OAuth OIDC SAML SCIM API Design

What you'll do

Write production code and implement critical technical components for the Digital Workers product.
Define and implement shared contracts for tasks, events, permissions, and usage.
Design integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs while managing data boundaries and latency.
Build reference services for tenant isolation, scoped tool execution, and idempotency.
Define the transactional and analytics data architecture using PostgreSQL and ClickHouse or BigQuery.
Resolve cross-team dependencies and guide technical leads through production rollouts.
Select and evaluate agent harnesses through representative identity tasks and failure tests.

What we're looking for

Proven record of leading architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams.
Experience personally implementing production code in recent projects.
Deep knowledge of distributed services, API design, data consistency, cloud security, and production operations.
Ability to explain design tradeoffs, guide senior engineers, and remain accountable through implementation.
Experience making systems simpler while improving reliability, security, or delivery speed.
Depth in AI systems (agent harnesses, model integrations) or platform architecture (backend, security, data, workflows).
Experience with Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Codex SDK, Strands Agents, LangChain Deep Agents, or LangGraph (preferred).
Experience with enterprise identity, security products, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, or ClickHouse/BigQuery (preferred).

2+ yrs exp Remote

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