Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI; BE

Overview

Get to know Okta Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Okta's Business Technology organization builds secure and intelligent internal platforms that power our global workforce. Our AI & Automation team is delivering next-generation tools and experiences by integrating GenAI and intelligent automation into workflows across IT, HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing and Customer Support. We focus on real-world applications: virtual agents, AI copilots, internal RAG services, and AI-augmented self-service portals - all with scale, governance, and user experience in mind.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI
, you'll play a key role in building user-facing and backend systems that leverage GenAI to improve internal experiences and operations. This role requires strong full-stack engineering skills, with an emphasis on AI integration and building intuitive, performant UIs that make AI accessible and useful to our internal customers.

You'll work closely with software engineers, product managers, and designers to build secure, intelligent tools for employees across Okta.

• End-to-end GenAI-powered applications design and build, including web-based UIs, API services, and backend orchestration.

• Implement and integrate LLM-based experiences using frameworks like Lang Chain, Llama Index, and tools like OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini.

• Define, implement, and champion operational excellence standards (SLOs, observability, incident response frameworks) for all services deployed.

• Develop responsive, accessible, and modern frontend interfaces using frameworks like React or Vue - with a focus on usability, performance, and trust in AI outputs.

• Build and maintain a library of reusable frontend components and hooks that allow other business delivery teams to easily "drop in" GenAI capabilities into their own applications.

• Build and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with vector search and embedding strategies (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS, Qdrant).

• Collaborate with designers and product managers to rapidly iterate on UX patterns for AI-powered experiences (e.g., prompt inputs, citations, summaries).

• Ensure security, privacy, observability, and test coverage across the full stack.

• Contribute to architecture decisions, engineering standards, and best practices for AI/automation systems.

• Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure services scale reliably across the org.

• 5-8 years of software engineering experience with full-stack development
  , including 2+ years of building AI/ML-driven applications
  .

• Strong Python development skills and 5+ years experience building cloud-based services using AWS, Docker, and RESTful APIs.

• 2+ years of experience in frontend technologies like React, Type Script, or Vue, and comfort working on UI/UX for internal tools or enterprise applications.

• Hands-on experience with LLM integration
  , RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, or orchestration frameworks like Lang Chain or Llama Index.

• Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, microservices, container orchestration (ECS/EKS),
  and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).

• Familiarity with secure coding, authentication/authorization, and internal data governance best practices.

• Ability to collaborate across engineering, design, and product teams - with a strong sense of user empathy and technical ownership.

• Bonus:
  Exposure to design systems, AI evaluation tooling, or real-time application performance monitoring.

• Make AI Real
  :
  Design and build AI-powered apps used daily by Okta employees.

• Full-Stack Challenge
  :
  Tackle end-to-end problems…