This role pays more than
61%
of similar roles. Most pay
$183,360–$251,625
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$230k
versus about
$217k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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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87 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$174,000–$239,000
across 87 roles with salary data.
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Gateway serves as a technical anchor for the Agent Gateway team, which manages identity-aware infrastructure connecting enterprise AI agents to authorized tools, data, and services. In this role, you will own critical components of the data and control planes, driving architectural design for request routing, token exchange, credential resolution, and policy evaluation. You will build and scale systems that handle agentic traffic while ensuring robust tenant isolation and audit logging. The work involves navigating evolving standards like MCP, XAA, and OIDC to secure agent-to-agent brokered delegation. Required skills include proficiency in Java or Go, deep knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and RFC 8693 token exchange, and experience with distributed backend systems. You will also integrate agentic tooling, such as Claude Code and MCP servers, into the engineering workflow to accelerate development.
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