Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform & InfrastructureNew

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 Python FastAPI services, data models and reusable connectors for Okta,: AWS, ServiceNow and enterprise applications.

  • Implement durable execution with Step Functions, SQS and EventBridge. Handle: approval waits, rate limits, duplicate events and safe retries.

  • Manage PostgreSQL schemas, indexes, query performance and pgvector retrieval.: Enforce tenant isolation across APIs, storage and credentials.

  • Build model API access for OpenAI, Anthropic and supported AWS paths,: including credentials, quotas, timeouts and cost controls.

  • Add an analytics pipeline for worker events, traces, tokens, findings and: verified outcomes. Evaluate ClickHouse and comparable systems such as BigQuery.

  • Create reliable usage records and reconciliation. Prevent retries, duplicate: findings and incomplete work from being counted as new outcomes.

What they're looking for

  • Build deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability and safe: release controls across development, staging and production.
  • Implement scoped write services, kill switches, audit retention and backup: recovery. Test failures and verify that sensitive changes actually took effect.
  • 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.