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Software Architect, AI Systems and Platform

San FranciscoFull-time$274k–$376k2026-10-23 → 2026-11-10
On-site · United States

Core

Design and implement the architecture for Digital Workers, a suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security, serving Okta's 20,000+ customers.

Role type

Senior hands-on Software Architect (AI Systems and Platform)

Builds

Autonomous agent harnesses, backend services, integrations, and data platforms for identity security

Domain

Enterprise Identity, Cloud Security, Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems design, API design, Cloud security, Production operations, PostgreSQL, Python, TypeScript, AWS services

Preferred skills

Agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK), ClickHouse, BigQuery, OAuth/OIDC/SAML/SCIM, Post-training systems

Technologies

Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, AWS (Amplify, Bedrock, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS, S3, KMS), PostgreSQL, pgvector, ClickHouse, BigQuery, OpenAI API, Anthropic API

Responsibilities

Define shared contracts for tasks, events, and permissions; Set boundaries between model reasoning and agent harnesses; Design integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs; Build reference services for tenant isolation and idempotency; Define transactional and analytics data architecture; Connect Product, Applied AI, and Platform engineers through clear APIs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC