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Engineering Architect, Application (Auth0)

San Francisco, 6 locationsFull-timePosted 24 days ago0 applicants
On-siteSoftware Architecture-678$274,000 – $370,000
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$274,000 – $370,000/ year
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  • Okta Looks like you have Javascript turned off! Please enable it to improve your browsing experience. Skip to main content Solve authorization for agents and phishing. Solve authorization for agents and phishing. Register now Register now Solve authorization for agents and phishing. +1 (800) 425-1267 Search United States Australia Brazil France Germany Japan Korea Mexico Netherlands Singapore Sweden United Kingdom Canada (EN) Spain Products Products With flexibility and neutrality at the core of our Okta and Auth0 Platforms, we make seamless and secure access possible for your customers, employees, and partners. Release overview Pricing Free trial Okta Platform Adaptive Multifactor Authentication Identity Governance Privileged Access Identity Threat Protection Okta Customer Identity Explore Okta Platform Auth0 Platform Multifactor Authentication Actions Passwordless Highly Regulated Identity Auth0 for AI Agents Explore Auth0 Platform Why Okta Why Okta Okta gives you a neutral, powerful and extensible platform that puts identity at the heart of your stack. No matter what industry, use case, or level of support you need, we’ve got you covered. Your Goals Non-Human Identities High-Performing IT Optimized Digital Experiences Identity-Powered Security Innovation Without Compromise Agile Workforces Your Industry Public Sector Financial Services Healthcare Manufacturing Retail Travel & Hospitality Technology Nonprofit Energy Leading Success Okta AI Okta Integration Network Okta for SaaS Builders For Small Businesses (SMBs) Customer Success Stories Secure Identity Commitment Trust Developers For Developers Start building with powerful and extensible out-of-the-box features, plus thousands of integrations and customizations. Our developer community is here for you. Okta Platform Okta Integration Network Developer Center Community
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  • Architect, Application (Auth0) San Francisco, California Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Engineering
  • Architect Team The Architecture team is a small group of very senior engineers reporting to our VP of Engineering Excellence, working broadly across the organization in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Security.  We partner deeply with other Engineering teams for large projects, and provide direction and architectural guidance for smaller initiatives.  We have a dual-pronged charter to “level up the tech stack and level up the people stack” via both technical contributions and partnerships/mentoring. In this role, you will have the opportunity to significantly contribute to Auth0’s future technology direction.  Through your experience, knowledge of industry trends, and technical abilities you will provide guidance, build proof of concepts, and deliver production software implementations that help Auth0 Engineering teams move faster by using and developing standard patterns and technologies. You will also help advance the engineering culture and help uplevel other engineers. Note that while this role involves a lot of guidance, documentation, and leadership, it also requires substantial hands-on coding and development of both applications and systems. What you’ll be doing You will collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture. Foster and lead innovation in the IAM space, with a strong focus on Agentic Identity
  • Lead initiatives to enhance, scale, and evolve Auth0’s product offerings. Embed within Engineering teams across the organization for large projects, while providing guidance and lighter touch engagements for smaller initiatives.
  • Design, architect, and document large scale distributed systems.
  • Lead the development of complex, broadly-scoped functionality in a very large and deep set of services and components. Teach by doing coding, optimizing, and troubleshooting Node.js and Go applications in collaboration with feature development teams.
  • Implement features and create consistent foundations using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes. Investigate, understand, and resolve bottlenecks in our ability to scale, use resources efficiently, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA.
  • Drive technical decision making while striving to find the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance. Participate in “round table” discussions and mentor team members and engineers throughout the organization to level up our people. Participate in our Engineering Leadership Team with other architects, directors, and executives. You will join our Incident Commander on-call rotation. Members of our team do periodic on-call rotation for high-severity incidents to help up-level our responses After spending time getting acquainted with our applications, systems, and processes, and getting training to What you’ll bring to the role 10+ years of software development experience. 5+ years of experience working on cloud applications.
  • Experience with API-first applications using REST and/or gRPC Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable systems at scale.
  • Knowledge of Identity Protocols such as OAuth, OIDC and SAML. Industry knowledge of the Authorization and Authentication spaces.
  • Experience in building AI Agents, and/or MCP servers applications.
  • Experience with security engineering and application security. Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to adjust your communication style to the intended audience, whether communicating with senior executives, customers, engineers, or product managers. Mastery and deep understanding of hands-on software development building distributed systems.
  • Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments, particularly Kubernetes in AWS/Azure. Prior experience with application performance management, tracing, and performance testing tools. Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for technical initiatives. Great ability to build trust through collaboration with multiple teams and get consensus on a vision.
  • Knowledge of application security and cloud security best practices. And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! - Deep experience in Node.js (Javascript or Typescript), or Golang. #LI-Hybrid (P-3286_3209115) Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit https://rewards.okta.com/us .    The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the

San Francisco Bay area is between

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