Engineering Architect - DX/AX/UX

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architectural vision for DX, UX, and AX across Auth0's public products, SDKs, and APIs.
• Identify and address inconsistencies across product surfaces, establishing unified patterns and standards.
• Architect and contribute to the SDK and API design layer, ensuring developer-facing interfaces are ergonomic, consistent, and built for human and agent consumers.
• Design and build agent skills, guardrails, and contextual tooling, including MCP servers, SKILL.md, llms.txt, and structured documentation.
• Embed within Engineering teams for large initiatives, providing architectural guidance for smaller efforts.
• Partner with Design to ensure engineering implementation reflects and reinforces product UX direction.
• Contribute hands-on to Auth0's Developer Experience Principles through implementation.
• Review, prototype, and contribute code across SDKs, tooling, and documentation systems.
• Participate in the Engineering Leadership Team.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the organization on experience-focused architecture.

Requirements

• 15–20 years of experience.
• Deep experience designing developer-facing products, including SDKs, APIs, CLIs, documentation systems, or developer portals.
• Strong understanding of developer experience and the ability to identify, articulate, and resolve gaps.
• Familiarity with agentic experience, including agent-readable documentation formats, MCP servers, agent skills, and how AI agents consume APIs and tooling.
• Knowledge of identity protocols such as OAuth, OIDC, and SAML and their presentation in developer-facing products.
• Experience driving consistency across multiple product surfaces.
• Hands-on coding ability, including building, prototyping, and contributing directly.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to influence engineers, product managers, and designers and drive technical decisions to conclusion.
• Ability to create clarity and alignment across teams without direct authority.

Nice to Have

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source SDKs or libraries.
• Familiarity with structured content and documentation systems designed for LLM consumption, including llms.txt, OpenAPI, and structured changelogs.
• Frontend or full-stack development experience, particularly with developer tooling or product surfaces such as Universal Login.

Benefits

• Support for employee well-being.
• Social impact programs.
• Talent development and community-building initiatives.
• Immersive, in-person onboarding experience.