Staff Engineer - Fullstack

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. JOB DESCRIPTION Okta’s Auth0 is an easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform. We make everyone’s login experience awesome. If you are a problem solver who wants to make this login experience even better, then look no further - Okta Auth0 B2C Authentication domain is where you want to be. Our domain’s mission is to provide a simple, secure, standards-compliant and delightful authentication experience for both end users and developers. We work with NodeJS, React, golang, Swift, Java / Kotlin, Postgres/MongoDB databases and our services run on both AWS and Azure. Our tech stack continues to evolve and expand to new technologies and trends. We are proponents of using the right tools for the job. We are looking for an engineer who leverages AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle without compromising security. You should be proficient in using LLMs for rapid prototyping, boilerplate generation, and complex refactoring, effectively cutting down development time. Crucially, you must possess the judgment to audit, debug, and secure AI-generated code, ensuring it meets our strict authentication standards. You will use AI not just to write code, but to generate comprehensive unit tests, document systems, and simulate edge-case scenarios in our auth flows. As a member of the Native Apps team you will: * Be a part of fast paced, agile team comprising of engineers, a product manager and designer. * Design and develop features, APIs and fixes to handle our current and future scale. * Be a technical steward who views our codebase as their own product. * You don’t wait for a perfect set of instructions; you proactively figure out what is needed to make a project successful. * Help our customers have an awesome experience with our products. * Collaborate with the support team for customer questions. * Participate on our on-call rotations for troubleshooting production issues. * Lead team discussions, mentor other engineers to become senior and improve team’s productivity. You are a good fit for this role if you: * Have 8+ years of software development experience. * Have excellent communication and collaboration skills. * Have experience creating public or internal APIs using NodeJS/Javascript/Typescript. * Have experience working with both relational databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL document databases (MongoDB) in a production environment. * Have experience with mobile CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions). * Won't just 'perform' tasks; you will be responsible for the technical integrity, architectural evolution, and long-term scalability of our core product. * Are autonomous and have a continuous improvement mindset. * Pay attention to details and keep user experience a top priority.  * Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, remote friendly environment. Bonus points if you: * Have experience building API for Mobile Apps and SDKs * Have 1+ years of experience in identity and access management (IAM) domain. * Have experience with GoLang, Terraform. * Have experience with FrontEnd ReactJS/VueJS. * Have deep understanding of NodeJS event loop. * Have experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Fastlane, Gradle, Snyk, or Terraform). Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Okta is rethinking the traditional work environment, providing our employees with the flexibility to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, no matter where they are located.  We enable a flexible approach to work, meaning you can work from the office, or from home, regardless of where you live.  Okta invests in the best technologies and provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments/experiences, empowering employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.     #LI-Hybrid # P24571 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. 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WHO WE ARE ABOUT STRIPE Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. ABOUT THE TEAM The User Auth Experience (UAX) team makes authentication and account security at Stripe world-class—secure by default, frictionless for legitimate users, and resilient against evolving threats. We own the end-to-end login, registration, and session management experience for the Stripe Dashboard, and we're expanding that security foundation to every surface where users and agents interact with Stripe. We improve security, access, and usability simultaneously—without compromising any of the three. Our scope spans account takeover prevention, API key security, auth for AI agents, and a two-party approvals framework governing both human and automated actions. The team sits within OAP (Organizations and Auth Platform) in the DEeP (Developer Experience and Product Platform Engineering) organization at Stripe. WHAT YOU’LL DO As a Staff Engineer on UAX, you'll set technical direction across multiple areas of the team's charter, drive architecture decisions that affect millions of users, and lead initiatives that span multiple organizations. You'll operate at the intersection of security and product—designing systems where the safe path is the default path, and navigating the tension between stronger security and lower user friction. You'll own the technical vision for one or more of our platform bets—extending our risk-scoring framework from login to API-layer anomaly detection, evolving our step-up challenge platform to serve multiple Stripe surfaces, or defining Stripe auth primitives for the agentic era (agent principals, approval rules, MCP human-in-the-loop). These are multi-year arcs that require someone who can hold the long-term architecture while shipping incrementally. You'll also directly build risk-dynamic enforcement pipelines, full-stack approval flows, API key protection UX, and the analytics infrastructure that measures our impact. This is a hands-on role with architectural leverage—you'll write code, review designs, and shape how partner teams integrate with our security primitives RESPONSIBILITIES * Own the technical architecture for a major area of the team's charter  * Design and ship systems that serve multiple Stripe surfaces—building generalized primitives, not point solutions  * Drive cross-org technical alignment on shared security infrastructure  * Make effective tradeoffs that consider security posture, user friction, and sustainable technical foundations  * Mentor and grow engineers on the team  * Raise the bar for design rigor, operational excellence, and code quality  * Shape the team's multi-year roadmap through technical foresight and principled prioritization WHO YOU ARE We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS * 12+ years of experience in full-time software development roles * Experience as a technical lead by guiding your team, influencing its roadmap, and overseeing complex projects spanning multiple teams * Experience in both frontend and backend, with strong ability to work as a generalist across the stack * Thrive in a collaborative environment with other teams to identify high-impact ways of solving problems * Excellent oral and written communication PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * You strive for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale well  * Deep expertise in authentication and authorization systems—SSO, MFA, passkeys and WebAuthn, OAuth, session management, or API key security * Experience building risk-based or adaptive security systems (anomaly detection, step-up auth, fraud prevention) * Strong understanding of IAM concepts, including RBAC, identity governance, SCIM, delegated auth, or approval workflows * Experience defining auth or security primitives for programmatic consumers (APIs, agents, and SDKs)—not just human-facing UI * Experience building scalable, resilient, and observable systems while understanding UX best practices for the frontend * You put yourself in the shoes of your users to understand their needs and fit that into the bigger picture * You stitch together many different services and processes, even if you haven't worked with them before * Experience building software for fellow developers