# Principal Software Engineer
**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC
**Salary:** $244K-$376K
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Sdk Development, Identity Protocols, Developer Tooling, Proof Of Concept Development, System Architecture, Cost Optimization
**Posted:** 2026-06-26
> Principal-level engineer on the Auth0Lab team building GenAI identity products. Hands-on architect role focused on POCs, industry protocols, SDKs, and market research. Requires 10+ years software experience and 4+ years in identity/cloud.
## Job Description
## What you’ll be doing
- Implement proof of concepts and demos of new products, features or standard implementations in our products. We have a dedicated environment for these here.
- 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
- You love to learn and are able to do so quickly
- You know how computers work and can apply that to solve hard problems, period.
- You constantly strive to hit the right balance between simplicity and flexibility
- You have a 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
- You are 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
- Have 10+ years of software development experience
- Have 4+ years of identity experience and working on cloud services
- Have 3+ years of experience working in developer tooling or strong passion and demonstrable taste for it

## Compensation & Benefits
- Annual base salary range for candidates in San Francisco Bay area: $274,000–$376,200
- Annual base salary range for candidates in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington: $244,000–$335,500
- Equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
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