Staff Software Engineer, Agent Gateway
Okta · SW Eng - Applications-674
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $194K–$267K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 3 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About the company
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…
The Agent Gateway Team
The Agent Gateway team owns the identity-aware infrastructure that connects enterprise AI agents to the tools, data, and services their organizations authorize. Every call from Claude, Agentforce,, Codex, and internal/homegrown agents to a resource flows…
The Staff Software Engineer Opportunity
Okta is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for the Agent Gateway team. You will own critical parts of the data and control planes and drive architectural design as the MCP and agent identity specs evolve. In this role, you…
What You’ll Be Doing
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…
What You’ll Bring to the Role
Experience: 7+ years building distributed, highly available production backend systems. 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.…
Extra Credit
Experience building or operating an MCP server, an agent framework, or an LLM-facing gateway in production. Prior work on multi-tenant SaaS platforms at Okta or an equivalent enterprise identity provider. Active contributions to standards work in the agent…
The Okta Experience
Supporting Your Well-Being Driving Social Impact Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with…
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