Staff Engineer, Auth0 FGA Developer Platform

Staff Software Engineer - Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript)

Okta

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. Staff Software Engineer The Product Auth0 is a developer-friendly identity platform that simplifies authentication and authorization for applications. Designed by developers for developers, we make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. Know more about our product at https://auth0.com/. The Role We are hiring for a new team within Core Identity, the Engineering organization entrusted with the very heart of the Auth0 application. Our teams own the authentication pipeline, identity protocols, user sessions, and all the fundamental concepts and foundational elements that underpin our entire product. We are also the stewards of the platform's technical health, performance, and efficiency. As a Staff Engineer for this new team, named Core Frontier, you will lead at the vital intersection of deep product innovation and the global customer experience. Your mission is to ensure that the sophisticated features developed across the Core Identity organization (such as Native to Web, Cross-App Access and Custom Token Exchange) are hardened, scaled, and seamlessly integrated into the Auth0 ecosystem. You will act as the architectural bridge, ensuring that complex internal logic translates into a polished, secure, and high-performance experience that millions of developers and end-users interact with every day. This is an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems challenges at a global scale, whilst providing a delightful and secure experience for our customers. You will primarily work with our NodeJS backend (TypeScript/JavaScript), with data stored in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis, all running on a multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure). If you have a passion for simplifying complex problems, building resilient and secure software, and care deeply about the final "feel" of a product, we encourage you to apply. Experience with or an interest in Identity and Access Management is highly valued. What you will do:  * Be a founding Staff member of this new team in Bengaluru, setting the technical bar and engineering culture for our growing presence in the region and working in collaboration with our global teams in Europe and North America. * Lead the design and delivery of innovative features that extend the capabilities of Auth0’s platform to help our customers innovate around the world securely and delightfully. * Take ownership of the strategic technical quality, security, reliability, and scalability of our systems. You'll drive architectural improvements and advocate for engineering best practices. * Identify architectural gaps in our current "frontier" and advocate for long-term improvements that benefit the entire Core Identity organization. * Thrive in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment, working with talented engineers and partners across Product, Security, Design, Architecture and QA to deliver features that delight our customers and ensure a unified technical vision. * Deepen or gain expertise in identity, security, and modern cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) while working on distributed systems at scale. * Mentor other engineers and contribute to our culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. * Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our critical services remain healthy and reliable. What you will bring: * 8+ years of professional software development experience, or equivalent. * Proficiency in designing and  building services with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript). * Experience creating and maintaining public and secure APIs, as well as front ends. * Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure). * A strong commitment to quality, with experience in various testing strategies (e.g., unit, integration, end-to-end). * A proven track record of driving technical alignment across multiple teams and mentoring senior-level individual contributors. * A product-oriented mindset, with the ability to understand customer needs and work collaboratively to find effective solutions. Nice to have: * Experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain. * Knowledge of security engineering principles and application security best practices. What you can look forward to as an Okta employee! * Amazing Benefits * Making Social Impact * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.   Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.   Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.   If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.   Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/. PID: 24607 #LI-Hybrid 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 an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

Senior Software Engineer in Test

Okta

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.   * We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test, who is eager to drive non-functional load testing, identify critical optimization areas, and conduct in-depth analysis to understand "what's broken and why." as well as “How can we improve the simulation?”  * You'll be at the forefront of research and development, uncovering efficiencies at a platform level and collaborating with engineering teams across the organization to implement solutions. * This isn't your typical QA or testing role, but rather a deep engineering role focused on performance load testing About the Team: * Our Performance Load testing  team operates on a hub-spoke model, with a core focus on deep understanding load generation systems, test data generation, and node.js and golang applications.. * We partner with engineering teams from across all products and platforms at Auth0, working to create more accurate simulated load generation and data generation tests.  * You'll be supporting specific teams with performance load coverage, load optimization and testing and ensuring our systems not only maintain their current high level of performance but continuously evolve and improve. * You will partner with other senior load testing engineers, and mentor more junior engineers, working to achieve a high level of team impact.  What We're Looking For: * Programming Knowledge: Experience with a programming language like Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Golang is a requirement. We're looking for someone with a tester's mindset who can understand code, databases and data structures and collaborate effectively with our engineering teams to ensure high-quality software. Experience with Databases: Have used databases such as MongoDb or SQL to store configuration or user data, understand tradeoffs between persistence and performance, and have used optimizations in these areas. Familiarity with indexes, query planners a plus. The ability to understand complex join queries and model datasets that leverage them. * Microservices & Kubernetes Exposure: High-level understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and microservices architecture. * Public Cloud Experience: Familiarity with public cloud environments, AWS and Azure.  * A "Developer" Mindset: You're passionate about digging into code, understanding system behavior, and proactively identifying areas for optimization. Observability tooling experience: Experience using or implementing datadog, new relic, open tracing, open telemetry or similar request tracing tooling.   Load testing tool experience with: Jmeter, Apache Bench, Artillery, etc. Linux and Containers: You have leveraged linux and containers in production in the past.  * You have deep testing experience, 5+ years working with advanced load generation and analysis systems and tools.  You understand Agentic AI tools, Experience with tools like Claude, Gemini, CoPilot implementing agents, skills, workflows and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, Git hooks and review processes. Why Join Us? * High Scale, High Impact: Work on a global identity platform with millions of users, where your contributions will have a significant and immediate impact across our entire engineering organization. * Solve Complex Problems: Tackle challenging performance and resilience issues in a distributed, high-throughput environment. * Exceptional Growth Opportunities: * Access to conferences and ongoing learning. * Mentorship from staff and senior team members. * Exposure to low-level problems, infrastructure knowledge, microservices, and Kubernetes scheduling optimization. * Opportunities to go deep into areas that genuinely interest you, continuously expanding your skillset. #LI_Hybrid P24594 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 an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Security- GCP

Okta

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. Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our cloud infrastructure. We embrace innovation and pave the way to transform bright ideas into excellent security solutions that help run large-scale, critical infrastructure. We encourage you to prescribe defense-in-depth measures, industry security standards and enforce the principle of least privilege to help take our Security posture to the next level. Our Infrastructure Security team has a niche skill-set that balances Security domain expertise with the ability to design, implement, rollout infrastructure across multiple cloud environments without adding friction to product functionality or performance. We are responsible for the ever-growing need to improve our customer safety and privacy by providing security services that are coupled with the core Okta product. This is a high-impact role in a security-centric, fast-paced organization that is poised for massive growth and success. You will act as a liaison between the Security org and the Engineering org to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap. You will focus on engineering security aspects of the systems used across our services. Join us and be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever. As a Staff Engineer, you should be able to identify gaps, propose innovative solutions, and contribute to roadmaps while driving alignment across multiple teams within the organization. Additionally, you should serve as a role model, providing technical mentorship to junior team members and fostering a culture of learning and growth What are we looking for? We are looking for a security-first SRE engineer who doesn't just "flag" issues but builds the automation to solve them. You should have a deep-seated intuition for cloud-native security and a proven track record of hardening large-scale GCP and AWS environments. As a Technical SME, you will design and build production infrastructure with a "security-at-scale" mindset. What You Will Work On? Security Evangelism: Lead initiatives to strengthen our security posture for critical infrastructure and promote best practices across the engineering organization. Incident Response & Reliability: Respond to production security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and build automated preventions to ensure high performance and reliability. Automated Hardening: Identify manual security processes and automate them using custom tooling and CI/CD integrations. Architecture & Documentation: Develop technical documentation, runbooks, and procedures for a 24x7 online environment. Platform Evolution: Continuously evolve our monitoring platforms, moving from simple auditing to active, automated prevention. Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Experience: 8+ years of experience architecting and running complex cloud networking and infrastructure, with at least 7+ years specialized in DevSecOps or Cloud Security. GCP Expertise: Minimum 3+ years of deep, hands-on experience securing GCP (GKE, GCE, Shared VPC etc). Infrastructure as Code (IaC): 10+ years of experience using Terraform and Chef to manage complex cloud resources and OS hardening. Automation Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Go, Python, or Ruby for building custom security tooling and automated remediation. Hardened Containers: Proven track record of securing containerized workloads, including image scanning, K8s RBAC, and runtime security tools (e.g., CrowdStrike Falcon, Falco, or gVisor). Unflappable Troubleshooting: A "see a problem, fix the problem" mindset with the ability to debug complex networking, IAM, or performance issues under pressure. Security Foundations: Strong grasp of Linux internals, OS hardening (CIS benchmarks), and IP protocols (TLS/SSL, DNSSEC, BGP). Education: BS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience. Key Responsibilities: IAM & Secrets Management: Design and maintain large-scale production IAM policies and secrets management workflows . Infrastructure Hardening: Implement and maintain Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and ensure all GCE/GKE environments meet strict compliance standards. Operational Excellence: Utilize industry-standard tools like OSQuery, Splunk, Chronicle, Nessus, or Qualys/ Crowdstrike to monitor system health and security telemetry. Strategic Rollouts: Lead the phased transition of security policies from Audit/Detection mode to Blocking/Prevention mode, ensuring zero impact on production uptime. Bonus Points For: Multi-Cloud IAM Governance: Experience designing a unified IAM framework across AWS and GCP, utilizing federated Identities such as Workload, Workforce Identity Federation with understanding of SAML & OIDC auth mechanism and automated "Least Privilege" enforcement. Cloud-Native Reliability Engineering: Deep understanding of multi-cloud reliability patterns, maintaining high availability (HA) during security patching or infrastructure-wide hardening. Hardened Kubernetes Orchestration: Advanced experience securing GKE, EKS, and kOps, specifically implementing Pod Security Standards, Network Policies, and Admission Controllers for a "Zero-Trust" posture. Threat Modeling:Security Reviews & Threat Modeling at both Design & Implementation scope. 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 an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.