About the Job
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...
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
The Agent Gateway team owns the identity-aware infrastructure that connects enterprise AI agents to the tools, data, and services their organizations authorize. Every call from Claude, Agentforce, Codex, and internal/homegrown agents to a resource flows through us. We enforce authorization, isolate credentials, mint...
Required Skills & Abilities
Experience: 4+ years building production backend systems, ideally distributed and highly available.
Technical Depth: Proficiency shipping production services in Java and/or Go.
Domain Knowledge: Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, and comfort reading and implementing spec-driven code. Familiarity with RFC 8693 token exchange is a plus.
Operational Sense: Hands-on experience with service rollouts, feature flags, observability, and incident response.
Agentic Fluency: Working familiarity with agentic development tools (e.g., Claude Code, MCP servers, AI-assisted code review), with a point of view on where they accelerate work.
Communication: Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to collaborate across a data plane service and a larger identity control plane.
Experience building or integrating with an MCP server, an agent framework, or an LLM-facing gateway.
Prior work on multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
Exposure to identity, authorization, or edge-of-network services.
Active participation in standards work in the agent identity space (MCP, OAuth, GNAP, DCR).
Full-stack or frontend experience for the gateway's admin and configuration surfaces.
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$136,000—$187,000 CAD
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