About the Team

At Okta, we're building the future of secure, enterprise-grade AI. We're looking for a Staff AI Engineer to help design and scale our Agentic AI Platform - the foundation that enables enterprise teams to build, deploy, and manage intelligent AI agents securely and at scale.

As part of a global AI engineering team spanning the US and India, you??ll provide technical leadership, write hands-on code, and mentor peers while shaping platform capabilities that empower applied AI use cases across Okta.

What you''ll do :

- Design and develop platform services for AI agents, including orchestration, lifecycle management, observability, and guardrails.
- Collaborate daily with US counterparts to align on architecture, share roadmaps, and ensure global consistency.
- Build scalable APIs, frameworks, and reusable components that enable teams to rapidly create and deploy secure AI agents.
- Contribute to monitoring, evaluation, and governance features that make AI adoption safe, reliable, and enterprise-ready.
- Partner with Applied AI engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure the platform supports real-world use cases.
- Mentor engineers within the India team,



raising the bar on technical craftsmanship and platform design.
- Stay current with advances in agentic AI, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI infrastructure.

What we are looking for:

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in AI/ML platforms or intelligent automation.
- 5+ years in Python preferred, Java, Node.js, or Go.
- 3+ years with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular), principles of accessibility (a11y), and an ability to collaborate effectively with Product & Design.
- Expertise in AI agent frameworks (LangGraph preferred), orchestration systems, vector databases, RAG pipelines, and monitoring/observability.
- Solid background in distributed systems, APIs, microservices, container orchestration (ECS/EKS), and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Experience building secure, enterprise-grade infrastructure for AI or ML workloads.
- Ability to influence architecture decisions, align with a global team, and set technical direction locally.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across time zones and global teams.

📌 Staff Software Engineer, AI and Automation (Karnataka)
🏢 Okta
📍 Karnataka