Software Architect (Auth0)

Okta•Washington, DC

5d•$244,000 - $376,200•Hybrid

About The Position

The Auth0Lab Team is a small team of engineers exploring new Auth0 products and features. They take ideas from concept to launch and aim to shape the future of identity. The team has a history of innovation, having played a role in shaping the identity industry with early Auth0 contributions and incubating Auth0 FGA. Their current focus is on enabling builders and companies of all sizes to ship production-grade GenAI apps and agents by assisting with identity and security. They have incubated Auth for GenAI and are working on new ideas like humanprincipal.ai. This role offers the chance to have fun learning and collaborating with a great group of people while shaping the identity industry for developers worldwide.

Requirements

You love to learn and are able to do so quickly
You know how computers work and can apply that to solve hard problems, period.
You constantly strive to hit the right balance between simplicity and flexibility
You have a talent to grok customer's needs and continuously iterate on your understanding of a problem space based on their feedback, industry trends and available technology
You are able to work in a team environment, have good communication skills and understand the value of collaboration

Nice To Haves

can design and architect large scale distributed systems
Understand the cost implications of cloud systems you design
Have 10+ years of software development experience
Have 4+ years of identity experience and working on cloud services
Have 3+ years of experience working in developer tooling or strong passion and demonstrable taste for it

Responsibilities

Implement proof of concepts and demos of new products, features or standard implementations in our products.
Lead industry wide efforts and protocols (e.g. MCP, A2A) around identity with recommendations, samples, SDKs
Implement samples and SDKs to make it easy to use Auth0 capabilities
Research market adjacencies to inform company strategy, m&a decisions and future investment ideas