Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform
Okta · San Francisco, California
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**Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform** **Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human** Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. --- ## The Software Architect Opportunity Okta is building **Digital Workers**, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security inside Okta. You’ll help shape the product with the ownership and pace of a startup and the resources of a public company. Okta is hiring **two hands-on architects**: - **Architect #1 (Agent Execution):** leads agent execution, harnesses, and evaluations. - **Architect #2 (Platform/Backend):** leads backend services, integrations, data, and platform reliability. You will write critical code, resolve cross-team decisions, and work with engineers through production rollout. --- ## About You - **Hands-on builder:** you still write production code and test important decisions through implementation. - **Practical architect:** you choose small, clear designs that are easy to extend as the product grows. - **Trusted partner:** you earn confidence through useful code, clear feedback, and customer understanding. --- ## What you will be doing - Define and implement shared contracts for **tasks, events, permissions, approvals, evidence, and usage**. - Set clear boundaries between **model reasoning, agent harnesses, durable workflows, and authorization-enforcing services**. - Select a harness using representative identity tasks, failure tests, and operational evidence (keeping model providers and harness components replaceable). - Design integrations with **OpenAI** and **Anthropic** APIs, including data boundaries, latency, cost, version changes, and measured release quality. - Build reference services for **tenant isolation, scoped tool execution, idempotency, long approval waits, and verified results**. - Define **transactional + analytics** data architecture (keep **PostgreSQL application state** separate from **ClickHouse/BigQuery analytics**). - Connect **Product, Applied AI, and Platform** engineers through clear ownership and practical APIs; resolve dependencies that slow delivery. - Write critical implementations, review recovery and security, and guide technical leads through production rollout and customer expansion. --- ## What you will bring to the role - Proven record leading architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams, with recent production code you personally implemented. - Deep knowledge of distributed services, API design, data consistency, cloud security, and production operations. - Experience simplifying systems while improving reliability, security, or delivery speed. - Ability to explain tradeoffs, guide senior engineers, and remain accountable through implementation. - Depth in at least one of the role focus areas below, plus the ability to work across the full product. --- ## Role focus - **AI systems architect:** build and evaluate agent harnesses, context management, model integrations, and quality controls (e.g., Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Codex SDK, Strands Agents, LangChain Deep Agents, LangGraph, or comparable custom runtime). - **Platform architect:** lead backend, connector, security, data, and workflow architecture; bring deep production systems experience and practical knowledge integrating model-driven workflows. --- ## Our stack - **Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript** - **A
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