Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure

Okta Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $165,000–$226,600 / 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 · Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure

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The Sr. Software Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure joins the team developing Digital Workers, a suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security. In this role, you will build the backend and AWS platform to keep these workers running around the clock. You will develop Python FastAPI services, data models, and reusable connectors for systems like ServiceNow and AWS. Key responsibilities include implementing durable execution using Step Functions, SQS, and EventBridge, while managing PostgreSQL schemas and pgvector retrieval. You will also build model API access for OpenAI and Anthropic, manage infrastructure as code, and develop analytics pipelines using ClickHouse or BigQuery. This position solves the technical challenge of creating reliable, multi-tenant infrastructure that enables autonomous agents to perform secure, approved changes within enterprise identity environments.

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Skills

Python FastAPI AWS Lambda SQS EventBridge Step Functions PostgreSQL pgvector ClickHouse BigQuery S3 KMS Secrets Manager CloudWatch CloudTrail React AWS Amplify OpenAI Anthropic Infrastructure as Code OAuth OIDC SAML SCIM LangGraph

What you'll do

Build Python FastAPI services, data models, and reusable connectors for enterprise applications.
Implement durable execution using AWS Step Functions, SQS, and EventBridge to handle retries and rate limits.
Manage PostgreSQL schemas, query performance, and pgvector retrieval while enforcing tenant isolation.
Build model API access for OpenAI and Anthropic including credentials, quotas, and cost controls.
Develop an analytics pipeline for worker events, traces, and outcomes using ClickHouse or BigQuery.
Create reliable usage records and reconciliation systems to prevent duplicate findings or incomplete work.
Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability tools across all environments.
Implement scoped write services, kill switches, audit retention, and backup recovery protocols.

What we're looking for

Experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems with 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 experience diagnosing database performance and asynchronous system failures.
Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability, and production incident response.
Sound judgment regarding customer data, tenant isolation, credentials, and safe changes to external systems.
Experience with ClickHouse, BigQuery, or comparable analytics systems, event ingestion, and usage metering (preferred).
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, or enterprise connector development (preferred).
Experience deploying agent frameworks such as Claude Agent SDK, Codex SDK, Strands Agents, Deep Agents, or LangGraph (preferred).

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