The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Build and Ship: Own the implementation of gateway features end-to-end — from virtual MCP server aggregation to token exchange and policy evaluation — with tests, observability, and operational readiness built in.
Work in the Runtime Path: Write code that handles credentials, tokens, tenant isolation, and audit logging with care. The gateway sits in the critical path for customer agent traffic, so correctness and reliability matter on every change.
Implement the Protocols: Read and implement MCP, OAuth token exchange, and agent identity specifications, and feed production lessons back into designs and reference implementations.
Ship With Agentic Tooling: Use Claude, Claude Code, and MCP-connected agents as everyday parts of your workflow across design, code generation, code review, and operations.
Contribute to Quality: Participate in code review, testing, incident response, and our design-doc culture, and help raise the team's engineering bar.
Experience: 4+ years building production backend systems, ideally distributed and highly available.
What they're looking for
- Technical Depth: Proficiency shipping production services in Java and/or Go.
- Domain Knowledge: Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, and comfort reading and implementing spec-driven code. Familiarity with RFC 8693 token exchange is a plus.
- Operational Sense: Hands-on experience with service rollouts, feature flags, observability, and incident response.
- Agentic Fluency: Working familiarity with agentic development tools (e.g., Claude Code, MCP servers, AI-assisted code review), with a point of view on where they accelerate work.