Staff Software Engineer, Core Service Interfaces (Auth0)

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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.

The Core Service Interfaces Team

The Core Service Interfaces team owns the building blocks and core services that power how developers and administrators interact with Auth0, from the customer-facing Management API to the backend that drives the Management Dashboard.

We streamline and bring consistency to how we build customer facing APIs for Auth0, standardizing our architecture and providing a robust set of building blocks to enhance the internal and external developer experience when consuming, building, and contributing to our APIs. We are responsible for the development and stewardship of our customer facing Management API.

We also own and maintain the core backend services for the Management Dashboard, from end to end. We are consolidating and modernizing the dashboard foundation, moving toward a more reliable, scalable, and secure platform that makes dashboard development easy.

This team's work shapes how developers get started with and manage their Auth0 resources, from onboarding through day-to-day administration of their APIs and dashboard.

We have embraced AI-assisted development as a core part of how we work. Our engineers use tools like Claude and GitHub Copilot every day to design, build, test, and ship faster, and we expect everyone on the team to make the most of them.

What you'll be doing

• Be a part of a collaborative and agile team, interfacing with product managers and other teams to support services they depend on
• Provide technical direction to the team, detecting technical improvement opportunities and taking action to design and implement them
• Mentor and coach other engineers to support their growth and bring them along
• Design and develop features, APIs, and fixes to handle our current and future scale with a strong bias towards security
• Own and evolve the core backend services for the Management Dashboard, including authentication, API proxying, and session management
• Improve the resilience and stability of our services, including managing session stores and enabling appropriate rate limits to meet high-availability standards
• Support service integration and migration work, including managing dashboard infrastructure across multiple environments
• Support existing services by ensuring that security issues and dependency updates are addressed in a timely manner
• Support other teams by reviewing changes to services they depend on and addressing bugs
• Work using NodeJS (JavaScript/TypeScript), MongoDB, and PostgreSQL on AWS and Azure
• Participate in our on-call rotations for troubleshooting production issues

What you'll bring to the role

• 8+ years of experience in a software engineering role
• Excellent communication skills
• A passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, scalable, and secure
• Interested in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Deep understanding of JavaScript / TypeScript and building performant and secure RESTful APIs using NodeJS
• Hands on experience designing, maintaining, modernizing, and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and driving the technical vision for them
• Experience building and operating backend services that power web applications or dashboards, including authentication, session management, and API proxying
• Thrive in a highly collaborative, fully remote, and distributed culture
• Demonstrate ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and a customer-focused attitude
• Embrace AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude and GitHub Copilot) as part of your daily workflow, with good judgment about when and how to apply them
• Strong experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing and designing testing strategies

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

• Experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and building or hosting MCP servers
• Experience creating and maintaining public APIs at scale
• Experience working with a fully distributed, remote team
• Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and application layers

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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.

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