Engineering Architect Auth

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 solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work.

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The Engineering Architect Team

The Architecture team is a small group of very senior engineers reporting to our VP of Engineering Excellence, working broadly across the organization in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Security. We partner deeply with other Engineering teams for large projects, and provide direction and architectural guidance for smaller initiatives. We have a dual-pronged charter to "level up the tech stack and level up the people stack" via both technical contributions and partnerships/mentoring.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to significantly contribute to Auth0's future technology direction. Through your experience, knowledge of industry trends, and technical abilities you will provide guidance, build proof of concepts, and deliver production software implementations that help Auth0 Engineering teams move faster by using and developing standard patterns and technologies. You will also help advance the engineering culture and help uplevel other engineers.

Note that while this role involves a lot of guidance, documentation, and leadership, it also requires substantial hands‑on coding and development of both applications and systems.

• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve Auth0's technology stack and architecture.
• Foster and lead innovation in the IAM space, with a strong focus on Agentic Identity.
• Lead initiatives to enhance, scale, and evolve Auth0's product offerings.
• Embed within Engineering teams across the organization for large projects, while providing guidance and lighter touch engagements for smaller initiatives.
• Design, architect, and document large‑scale distributed systems.
• Lead the development of complex, broadly‑scoped functionality in a very large and deep set of services and components.
• Teach by doing: coding, optimizing, and troubleshooting Node.js and Go applications in collaboration with feature development teams.
• Implement features and create consistent foundations using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
• Investigate, understand, and resolve bottlenecks in our ability to scale, use resources efficiently, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA.
• Drive technical decision making while striving to find the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance.
• Participate in round‑table discussions and mentor team members and engineers throughout the organization to level up our people.
• Participate in our Engineering Leadership Team with other architects, directors, and executives.
• Join our Incident Commander on‑call rotation and assist with high‑severity incidents after training.

• Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable systems at scale.
• Knowledge of Identity Protocols such as OAuth, OIDC, and SAML.
• Industry knowledge of the Authorization and Authentication spaces.
• Experience in building AI agents and/or MCP server applications.
• Experience with security engineering and application security.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to adjust your communication style to the intended audience.
• Mastery and deep understanding of hands‑on software development building distributed systems.
• Experience with API‑first applications using REST and/or gRPC.
• Experience with multi‑cloud environments and container deployments, particularly Kubernetes in AWS and Azure.
• Prior experience with application performance management, tracing, and performance testing tools.
• Excellence at creating…