Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience
Okta · Posted Oct 12
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Auth0 FGA is Okta's fine-grained authorization product, powered by OpenFGA, a CNCF incubating open source project that Okta maintains with outside contributors. The FGA DevEx team owns how developers experience both the open source engine and the managed SaaS service, including SDKs, CLI, IDE plugins, Helm charts and documentation. This Staff Engineer role sets the technical direction for the team, architecting SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python and Java and shaping new developer surfaces such as MCP servers.
What you will do
- Define and drive the technical direction for FGA DevEx across open source and SaaS, and turn it into a roadmap with the engineering manager and the product team.
- Build support for that direction across the team, the FGA group and open source community
- Mentor the team's senior engineers, and raise the level of everyone around you.
- Establish how a new team builds software, from design reviews and coding standards to how we test and ship, and set the quality bar.
- Make the calls that are hard to undo: when an API is ready to ship across every language, how it evolves, and when to deprecate.
- Be the voice of developer experience across FGA: partner with the Core team on API design and with internal teams such as Integrations, and flag developer friction wherever you see it.
- Architect our SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python and Java, including the generator every client is built from.
- Set the standards every SDK follows, from authentication and error handling to retries and rate limiting.
- Shape the tooling and content around the SDKs: the CLI, IDE integrations, Helm charts, GitHub automation, docs and examples.
- Drive the release and versioning strategy across all divisions
- Grow our open source community: build the contributor and maintainer base beyond the team today, and make it easy for outside developers to contribute.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years as a software engineer, including time leading the technical direction of a team or a significant area, with or without the title.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#/.NET, Python or Java, and the curiosity to work across several.
- Experience building software other developers use: SDKs, API clients, libraries, developer platforms, CLIs or tooling.
- A strong sense of API design and ergonomics, and of how an interface should feel in different languages
- Clear communication and a track record of influencing decisions across teams and with outside contributors, without relying on authority
Preferred qualifications
- Contributing to, maintaining or leading open source projects.
- Building with code generation tools such as OpenAPI Generator and templating frameworks.
- Designing resilient clients: authentication flows, retries and rate limiting.
- Setting up GitHub Actions and release automation.
- Working in authorization or identity, such as OAuth, RBAC or ReBAC.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Okta
Okta is a leading independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions that securely connect people and technologies to the right applications. The company powers both Workforce Identity and Customer Identity platforms, allowing organizations to securely manage user access and navigate modern challenges like agentic AI security.
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Company size
- 7500+ employees
- Founded
- 2009
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $228M raised
- 2010-02-01Series A$10M
- 2011-08-01Series B$16.5M
- 2012-12-01Series C$25M
- 2013-09-01Series D$27M
- 2014-06-01Series E$75M
- 2015-09-01Series F$75M
- 2018-02-21Post IPO Debt$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Legal Officer
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