Staff Fullstack Engineer - AI Acceleration

Okta
Toronto
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeCAD 160,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Self-starter mentality","Product mindset","Ownership","Architectural judgment","Customer awareness"]

Own the technical build for agent authorization and phishing-resistant access on the AI Acceleration team. Work in a 0-to-1 environment shaping product outcomes, making durable architectural decisions for distributed systems and complex API integrations, and setting security and quality bars. Build with Vercel, AWS, and JavaScript/TypeScript and Java, modernize development practices, and raise engineering excellence through CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and coaching.

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Okta
Okta
4 days ago

Staff Fullstack Engineer - AI Acceleration

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Job Summary

Own the technical build for agent authorization and phishing-resistant access on the AI Acceleration team. Work in a 0-to-1 environment shaping product outcomes, making durable architectural decisions for distributed systems and complex API integrations, and setting security and quality bars. Build with Vercel, AWS, and JavaScript/TypeScript and Java, modernize development practices, and raise engineering excellence through CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and coaching.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Solve core authorization challenges by defining agent authorization models and enforcing least privilege.
  • •Design secure, phishing-resistant authentication and authorization for people and agents acting on their behalf.
  • •Drive product shaping by digging into customer needs, defining outcomes, and building toward them.
  • •Lead technical architecture decisions for distributed systems and complex API integrations that scale.
  • •Improve engineering excellence by modernizing development practices and addressing tech debt across CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 160,000 - 220,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRrsp MatchPaid LeaveTelemedicine

Key Requirements

  • •Define how companies authorize agent actions and enforce least privilege for what an agent can do on a user’s behalf.
  • •Build phishing-resistant authentication and authorization for both people and agents acting for them.
  • •Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies.
  • •Deep expertise building reliable, secure enterprise-grade software in Java (or another type-safe language) and fullstack proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • •Strong cloud architecture fundamentals with experience designing and operating large-scale services on AWS, plus solid web authentication/authorization security fundamentals.
Experience:StartupAIIdentity and access management
Skills:Self-starter mentalityProduct mindsetOwnershipArchitectural judgmentCustomer awareness
Tech Stack:VercelAWSJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaDistributed systemsAPIsCI/CDObservability

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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