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OktaOktaBellevue, WA

Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer on the Auth0Lab team building proof-of-concepts, SDKs, and industry protocols for secure GenAI identity and authorization. Requires 10+ years software development experience including identity and developer tooling.

244k – 376k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

What you’ll be doing

  • 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.

What you’ll bring to the role

  • Love to learn and are able to do so quickly.
  • Know how computers work and can apply that to solve hard problems.
  • Constantly strive to hit the right balance between simplicity and flexibility.
  • 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.
  • Able to work in a team environment, have good communication skills and understand the value of collaboration.

Nice to have:

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

Skills

Distributed Systemscloud servicesidentity protocolssdk developmentproof of concept developmentlarge scale systems architectureDeveloper Tooling

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