Engineering Architect, Application (Auth0)

Okta•San Francisco, CA

9d•$274,000 - $370,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for an Engineering Architect on the Auth0 team, focusing on securing identity for AI and human users. The position involves working broadly across the organization in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Security teams. The architect will provide direction and architectural guidance for initiatives, contribute to the future technology direction of Auth0, and help advance the engineering culture. This role requires hands-on coding and development of both applications and systems, as well as providing guidance, building proof of concepts, and delivering production software implementations. The goal is to help Auth0 Engineering teams move faster by using and developing standard patterns and technologies, and to uplevel other engineers.

Requirements

10+ years of software development experience.
5+ years of experience working on cloud applications.
Experience with API-first applications using REST and/or gRPC
Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable systems at scale.
Knowledge of Identity Protocols such as OAuth, OIDC and SAML.
Industry knowledge of the Authorization and Authentication spaces.
Experience in building AI Agents, and/or MCP servers applications.
Experience with security engineering and application security.
Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to adjust your communication style to the intended audience, whether communicating with senior executives, customers, engineers, or product managers.
Mastery and deep understanding of hands-on software development building distributed systems.
Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments, particularly Kubernetes in AWS/Azure.
Prior experience with application performance management, tracing, and performance testing tools.
Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for technical initiatives.
Great ability to build trust through collaboration with multiple teams and get consensus on a vision.
Knowledge of application security and cloud security best practices.

Nice To Haves

Deep experience in Node.js (Javascript or Typescript), or Golang.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture.
Foster and lead innovation in the IAM space, with a strong focus on Agentic Identity.
Lead initiatives to enhance, scale, and evolve Auth0’s product offerings.
Embed within Engineering teams across the organization for large projects, while providing guidance and lighter touch engagements for smaller initiatives.
Design, architect, and document large scale distributed systems.
Lead the development of complex, broadly-scoped functionality in a very large and deep set of services and components.
Teach by doing: coding, optimizing, and troubleshooting Node.js and Go applications in collaboration with feature development teams.
Implement features and create consistent foundations using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
Investigate, understand, and resolve bottlenecks in our ability to scale, use resources efficiently, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA.
Drive technical decision making while striving to find the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance.
Participate in “round table” discussions and mentor team members and engineers throughout the organization to level up our people.
Participate in our Engineering Leadership Team with other architects, directors, and executives.
Join our Incident Commander on-call rotation for high-severity incidents to help up-level our responses.