# Engineering Architect (Node.js)

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $244k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, MongoDB, Redis, Postgres
**Posted:** 2026-02-10

> Senior architect collaborates across teams to shape Auth0's technology stack, designs distributed systems, leads Node.js/Go development, optimizes performance, and mentors engineers. Requires 10+ years experience with deep Node.js expertise.

## Job Description

## What you’ll be doing
- Collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture.
- Develop expertise in authentication and authorization to enhance and scale product offerings.
- Embed within Engineering teams for large projects and provide guidance for smaller initiatives.
- Design, architect, and document large-scale distributed systems.
- Lead development of complex functionality across services and components.
- Code, optimize, and troubleshoot Node.js and Go applications.
- Implement features using AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
- Investigate and resolve scalability and performance bottlenecks.
- Drive technical decisions balancing simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance.
- Mentor engineers and participate in Engineering Leadership Team.
- Join Incident Commander on-call rotation after training.

## What you’ll bring to the role
- Passion for building secure, reliable systems at scale.
- Strong communication skills adaptable to diverse audiences.
- **Experience with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript), especially in large codebases**.
- Experience with API-driven applications (REST/gRPC).
- Experience with multi-cloud and Kubernetes in AWS/Azure.
- Strong analytical skills for performance optimization.
- Ability to create clarity, lead discussions, and build consensus.
- Knowledge of application and cloud security best practices.
- 10+ years software development experience.
- 5+ years cloud applications experience.

## Extra credit
- Knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, SAML.
- Security engineering experience.

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