Okta
About this role
This is a new team inside Core Identity, the engineering organisation that owns the heart of the
Auth0 application: the authentication pipeline, identity protocols, user sessions and the foundational
concepts the whole product rests on. The team, called Core Frontier, exists at the join between deep
product innovation and the customer experience. Your job is to take sophisticated features built
across Core Identity, things like Native to Web, Cross App Access and Custom Token Exchange, and make
sure they are hardened, scaled and integrated cleanly into Auth0. The posting describes the role as
the architectural bridge that turns complex internal logic into something millions of developers can
use safely. Apply if you want protocol level identity work rather than application features on top of
it.
Auth0 application: the authentication pipeline, identity protocols, user sessions and the foundational
concepts the whole product rests on. The team, called Core Frontier, exists at the join between deep
product innovation and the customer experience. Your job is to take sophisticated features built
across Core Identity, things like Native to Web, Cross App Access and Custom Token Exchange, and make
sure they are hardened, scaled and integrated cleanly into Auth0. The posting describes the role as
the architectural bridge that turns complex internal logic into something millions of developers can
use safely. Apply if you want protocol level identity work rather than application features on top of
it.
Who this is for
Requirements. 5+ years of software engineering experience.
The team and mission. Core Identity owns the authentication pipeline, identity protocols, user
sessions and the fundamental elements underpinning the Auth0 product, and is also steward of the
platform's technical health, performance and efficiency. Core Frontier is a new team within it. As a
Senior Engineer on that team you operate at the intersection of deep product innovation and the
global customer experience, ensuring features developed across Core Identity (the posting names
Native to Web, Cross App Access and Custom Token Exchange) are hardened, scaled and seamlessly
integrated into the Auth0 ecosystem. You act as the architectural bridge so complex internal logic
becomes a polished, secure and high performance experience for developers.
Being on a brand new team. The posting says plainly that this is a new team. That usually means more
influence over how things are done and less established process to lean on, which suits some people
and not others. Worth asking in the first call how many engineers the team will have and who else has
joined.
Location. Bengaluru, with Okta's flexible model where the role allows.
⚠️ Ignore the Okta board metadata that reports "Minimum Work Experience: 0.0" on several of its
requisitions. It is an unfilled placeholder, not an experience figure.
Who this is for. An engineer with five or more years who wants identity protocols and platform
hardening rather than feature delivery. Auth0 is a developer facing product, so the definition of
done includes other engineers' experience of your work. If you have OAuth, OIDC or SAML depth, this
is squarely aimed at you, and that depth is portable to any security team afterwards.
The team and mission. Core Identity owns the authentication pipeline, identity protocols, user
sessions and the fundamental elements underpinning the Auth0 product, and is also steward of the
platform's technical health, performance and efficiency. Core Frontier is a new team within it. As a
Senior Engineer on that team you operate at the intersection of deep product innovation and the
global customer experience, ensuring features developed across Core Identity (the posting names
Native to Web, Cross App Access and Custom Token Exchange) are hardened, scaled and seamlessly
integrated into the Auth0 ecosystem. You act as the architectural bridge so complex internal logic
becomes a polished, secure and high performance experience for developers.
Being on a brand new team. The posting says plainly that this is a new team. That usually means more
influence over how things are done and less established process to lean on, which suits some people
and not others. Worth asking in the first call how many engineers the team will have and who else has
joined.
Location. Bengaluru, with Okta's flexible model where the role allows.
⚠️ Ignore the Okta board metadata that reports "Minimum Work Experience: 0.0" on several of its
requisitions. It is an unfilled placeholder, not an experience figure.
Who this is for. An engineer with five or more years who wants identity protocols and platform
hardening rather than feature delivery. Auth0 is a developer facing product, so the definition of
done includes other engineers' experience of your work. If you have OAuth, OIDC or SAML depth, this
is squarely aimed at you, and that depth is portable to any security team afterwards.
Apply on company site
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