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
Architect and Lead: Own the end-to-end design and delivery of major gateway capabilities, from virtual MCP server aggregation to Agent-to-Agent brokered delegation, as well as on-premises deployment models.
Design for Security and Runtime: Set the standard for how the gateway handles credentials, tokens, tenant isolation, and audit logging. Every decision carries direct customer trust and compliance weight. The Gateway team sits in the path of agent runtime traffic, which is in the critical path for customers.
Move With the Protocols: Track and shape MCP, OAuth token exchange, and agent identity specifications. Feed lessons learned from production back into the specs and their reference implementations.
Ship With Agentic Tooling: Treat Claude, Claude Code, and MCP-connected agents as first-class parts of your engineering workflow. Set the pattern for how the team uses these tools across design, code generation, code review, and operations—including custom skills, subagents, and MCP servers that accelerate the entire team.
Raise the Bar: Drive code review, testing standards, incident retrospectives, and our design doc culture. Mentor engineers on the team and foster alignment across adjacent groups
Experience: 7+ years building distributed, highly available production backend systems.
What they're looking for
- Technical Depth: Hands-on experience shipping production services in Java and/or Go.
- Domain Expertise: Strong grounding in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and RFC 8693 token exchange. You should be highly comfortable reading, interpreting, and implementing spec-driven code.
- Track Record: Proven success in shipping identity, authorization, or edge-of-network services at scale, including a deep understanding of the operational side (rollouts, feature flags, observability, incident response).
- Agentic Fluency: Working fluency with agentic development tools (e.g., Claude Code, MCP servers, AI-assisted code review). You have concrete opinions on where they accelerate workflows and where they fall short.
