Staff Engineer, Developer Platform

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.

Job Overview:

We are looking for a highly experienced Staff Engineer to join the FGA Developer Tooling team and lead the evolution of our end to end developer experience across both OSS and SaaS.

This team owns the SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python, Java and other languages, along with CLI workflows, IDE integrations, GitHub automation, developer documentation, and release strategy. All development is done in the open as open source, and we actively welcome and review community contributions.

Our guiding principle is One developer experience, many deployment models.

As a Staff Engineer, you will define technical direction, ensure cross language consistency, influence API design in partnership with FGA Core, and raise the quality bar across all developer facing tooling.

Responsibilities:

Define and drive the technical direction for FGA SDKs, CLI, IDE integrations, and developer automation across OSS and SaaS.

Lead architectural decisions for multi language SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python, and Java, leveraging and evolving the SDK generator that forms the core of all clients.

Own and evolve the SDK generator framework, templates, and wrapper patterns to ensure cross language consistency, configurability, and long term maintainability.

Establish standards across SDKs for authentication flows such as client credentials, error mapping and handling, retry logic with appropriate rate limiting strategies, and method level configuration overrides.

Ensure advanced SDK capabilities such as BatchCheck, ListRelations, and non transactional write operations are implemented with appropriate parallelization, performance safeguards, and consistency across languages.