Identity Architect

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.

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. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

This is not a traditional architect role. At Okta, an Okta on Okta Identity Architect is the premier technical execution tier above Principal Engineer—acting as the ultimate hands‑on practitioner of our own cloud platform. While you won't be writing application code, you will get your hands dirty configuring, extending, and testing the boundaries of the platform. You are the builder who proves our platform works in the real world.

Have you ever configured our platform, pushed Okta Platform Services to their limits, and thought: "If I worked at Okta, I know exactly how we could make this platform better"?

We are looking for a highly mature, technical leader who is already a deeply experienced, hands‑on Okta customer practitioner to drive the technical execution of our Identity Security & Agentic Identity portfolio. In this role, you will transition from being an external customer to becoming the technical cornerstone of the internal "Okta on Okta" team, acting as Customer Zero. Reporting directly to the VP of IAM, you will configure, deploy, and battle-test cutting‑edge platform features from Alpha through Early Availability (EA)—giving you the unique leverage to directly shape, influence, and improve the core Okta platform before these solutions scale globally.

If you stay at a traditional customer organization, you can only deploy what we build. In this role, you get to cross the table, become the elite practitioner of a world‑class security platform, get early access to cutting‑edge features, and directly influence the future of the platform. You will collaborate directly with other top‑tier engineers across our customer base and partner with the absolute pioneers of the identity industry to shape the tools you've spent your career using.

• The Ultimate "Customer Zero" Platform Practitioner (Alpha to EA): Bring your real‑world customer deployment perspective directly into our tenant. Act as the lead hands‑on architect configuring and deploying Alpha platform capabilities within Okta’s own corporate IAM tenant. You will serve as the bridge to our core platform product teams, providing the vital, practitioner‑level feedback that shapes final platform design.
• AI Agent & Agentic Identity Security: Lead the hands‑on architecture and configuration of how the Okta Platform governs non‑human, autonomous AI workloads across O4AA (Okta for AI Agents), defining secure authentication, token exchange, and authorization patterns.
• Platform-to-Platform
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Act as a technical peer and trusted advisor to fellow hands‑on practitioners at our customer organizations. You will share your direct, real‑world tenant deployment experiences, trade‑offs, and lessons learned with the engineers actually building and securing their Okta platforms in the wild.
• Sharing the Playbook: Contribute to our technical content efforts (such as a deep‑dive "how-to" video series, co-hosting internal podcasts, or presenting to fellow practitioners in highly focused, interactive roundtable breakout sessions at Oktane) to share the…