Staff Software Engineer

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.

Staff Software Engineer - Support Tooling

Auth0 is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Support Tooling Team. The team builds and maintains the internal tools that help our support engineers and teammates meet customer needs. You will work on upcoming architecture and security needs for the tooling, authentication and authorization for internal users, and maintaining & new functionality requested by internal support teams.

What you'll be doing

• Build secure, performant, cross-platform applications for the support team.

• Evaluate and maintain the architecture of our tooling, and assess new technologies and techniques to improve our practices.

• Design and improve authentication and authorization for internal tools.

• Build new features and maintain existing ones across the full technical stack.

• Collaborate across teams to solve technical and non-technical challenges.

• Participate in the team's on-call rotation.

• Debug and resolve production issues.

What you bring to the role

• 5+ years of full stack development experience.

• Experience with React and Styled Components.

• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and JWT.

• Strong working knowledge of Node.js and RESTful APIs.

• Deep understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript.

• Ability to work independently and be self-directed, while contributing well in a team.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Experience working with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD

• Experience building and maintaining MVC architectures.

Nice to have

• Cross-team leadership: Sets direction across teams without managing them.

• Influential design docs: Writes RFCs that other teams adopt.

• Operational ownership: Drives incident follow-up and reduces on-call toil.

• Growing others: Mentors engineers into senior roles.

• Business context: Explains tradeoffs in cost and customer impact terms.

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