# Staff Fullstack Engineer, AI Acceleration Team

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Toronto, Canada
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** CA$160k – CA$220k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS, Vercel, Distributed Systems, API Integrations, Authentication, Authorization, CI/CD, Observability, IAM
**Posted:** 2026-08-27

> Staff full-stack engineer leading zero-to-one development of AI identity features, including agent authorization and phishing-resistant access. The role requires architectural expertise, Java and JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency, AWS experience, and the ability to raise team-wide engineering standards.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define authorization models for AI agent actions and enforce least privilege on behalf of users.
- Build phishing-resistant authentication and authorization for people and AI agents.
- Shape product outcomes by understanding customer needs and defining solutions.
- Own product quality and technical outcomes.
- Make architectural decisions for scalable distributed systems and complex API integrations.
- Advance AI usage across the software development lifecycle, including design, review, and shipping.
- Coach engineers and raise the team’s technical bar.
- Drive improvements in CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, support, and technical debt.
- Maintain a direct connection between engineering work and customer outcomes.

## Requirements
- Ability to work autonomously, identify priorities, and operate effectively in ambiguity.
- Proficiency applying AI tools across the software development lifecycle and evaluating development tooling.
- Proven experience designing scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies.
- Strong understanding of web authentication, authorization, authentication flows, and sensitive-data protection.
- Deep expertise building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software in Java or another type-safe language.
- High proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and the ability to build robust frontends.
- Strong cloud architecture fundamentals and experience designing and operating large-scale AWS services.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience working on a zero-to-one, startup-like team.
- Experience leading teams through changes such as AI adoption, new developer tooling, or cultural shifts.
- Familiarity with identity and access management tooling.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: **$160,000–$220,000 CAD**.
- Equity, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, RRSP matching, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave, including PTO and parental leave, may be provided in accordance with applicable plans and policies.

## Similar jobs

- [Staff Fullstack Engineer - AI Acceleration](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/a20f6d23-9ca0-4add-aa10-75b5295798e4) - Okta - Toronto, Canada - CA$160k – CA$220k/yr
- [Staff Fullstack Engineer, Okta Secures AI](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/f14f6a65-0f35-493c-b40b-fa0b607ce717) - Okta - Toronto, Canada - CA$160k – CA$220k/yr
- [Staff Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5751b1cb-80bf-4375-aff6-7b34db298cf0) - Twilio - Remote - CA$160k – CA$200k/yr
- [Staff Fullstack Engineer Monetization Engineering: Purchase](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/7b633af5-a029-4424-874b-95998aade721) - GitLab - Remote - $153k – $259k/yr
- [Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6effa1c4-26c9-4474-b65c-d7e8bd676b4c) - Fivetran - Toronto, Canada - CA$168k – CA$209k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4d4b88d5-e389-49de-ae01-ac54107317e7
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4d4b88d5-e389-49de-ae01-ac54107317e7