Staff Software Engineer, AI and Automation

Bengaluru, IndiaFull-TimeStaffAI / Data Science

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What you'll do :

  • Design and develop platform services for AI agents, including orchestration, lifecycle management, observability, and guardrails.
  • Collaborate daily with US counterparts to align on architecture, share roadmaps, and ensure global consistency.
  • Build scalable APIs, frameworks, and reusable components that enable teams to rapidly create and deploy secure AI agents.
  • Contribute to monitoring, evaluation, and governance features that make AI adoption safe, reliable, and enterprise-ready.
  • Partner with Applied AI engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure the platform supports real-world use cases.
  • Mentor engineers within the India team, raising the bar on technical craftsmanship and platform design.
  • Stay current with advances in agentic AI, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI infrastructure.

What we are looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in AI/ML platforms or intelligent automation.
  • 5+ years in Python preferred, Java, Node.js, or Go.
  • 3+ years with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular), principles of accessibility (a11y), and an ability to collaborate effectively with Product & Design.
  • Expertise in AI agent frameworks (LangGraph preferred), orchestration systems, vector databases, RAG pipelines, and monitoring/observability.
  • Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, microservices, container orchestration (ECS/EKS), and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
  • Experience building secure, enterprise-grade infrastructure for AI or ML workloads.
  • Ability to influence architecture decisions, align with a global team, and set technical direction locally.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across time zones and global teams.

At Okta, you’ll play a critical role in building the platform foundations that power enterprise AI. Your work will directly enable applied AI solutions that impact thousands of employees and customers, while ensuring AI adoption is smarter, faster, and always secure. As part of a global engineering team, you’ll collaborate seamlessly with peers in the US and India, making an impact at scale.

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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

  • Amazing Benefits
  • Making Social Impact
  • Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
  • Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Job Summary

CompanyOkta
LocationBengaluru, India
TypeFull-Time
LevelStaff
DomainAI / Data Science
Staff Software Engineer, AI and Automation at Okta (Bengaluru, India) | WorkWay