# Principal Software Engineer

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $244k – $376k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, cloud services, identity protocols, sdk development, proof of concept development, large scale systems architecture, Developer Tooling
**Posted:** 2026-07-14

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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