Principal Software Engineer – Developer Platform (Auth0)

Okta
Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 184,000 - 253,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Turning ambiguity into direction","Mentorship","Cross-functional collaboration","Engineering bar-raising"]

Lead the Developer Platform team’s technical direction for Auth0/Okta’s identity infrastructure. Own platform architecture and cross-cutting decisions, architect distributed, event-driven systems for throughput, reliability, and consistency, and translate ambiguous problems into modular designs. Raise the engineering bar through deep reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with adjacent tech leads to keep the wider platform aligned for both human developers and AI agents.

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Principal Software Engineer – Developer Platform (Auth0)

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Job Summary

Lead the Developer Platform team’s technical direction for Auth0/Okta’s identity infrastructure. Own platform architecture and cross-cutting decisions, architect distributed, event-driven systems for throughput, reliability, and consistency, and translate ambiguous problems into modular designs. Raise the engineering bar through deep reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with adjacent tech leads to keep the wider platform aligned for both human developers and AI agents.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set technical direction and cross-cutting decisions for the developer platform architecture.
  • •Design distributed systems for throughput, reliability, and consistency under real load.
  • •Convert vaguely specified platform problems into clear, modular technical designs the team can execute.
  • •Shape the platform so it holds up for both human developers and AI agents calling/using it.
  • •Lead deep architectural reviews, raise engineering standards, mentor engineers, and align with adjacent tech leads across teams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 184,000 - 253,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRrspTelemedicinePaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience as a Principal or Staff-level individual contributor.
  • •Extensive experience designing and operating high-scale, reliable backend and event-driven distributed systems with strong failure-handling tradeoffs.
  • •Proven track record designing and shipping platforms or developer-facing systems at scale with strong interface/abstraction instincts.
  • •Deep understanding of identity and access management (IAM) platform capabilities and abstractions.
  • •Strong Node.js fundamentals; Go is a plus.
Experience:10+ yearsIdentity and access management (IAM)Developer toolsDistributed systemsEvent-driven systemsLLM/AI agents
Skills:OwnershipTurning ambiguity into directionMentorshipCross-functional collaborationEngineering bar-raising
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Node.jsGoMCPLLMLLM-facing designAgentic tooling

Company Brief

Okta
Provides identity and access management cloud solutions that help organizations secure and manage user authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management across applications and devices.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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