Okta
About the Role
Location: New York, Houston, San Francisco or Seattle ·
We’re hiring a Senior Identity Platform Engineer to make Okta Nscale’s single front door: phishing-resistant sign-in only, no usable password, and identity infrastructure managed as code.
As a Senior Identity Platform Engineer, you’ll deliver our passkey rollout, integrate identity verification into onboarding and recovery, and bring Okta configuration under Terraform. You’ll work alongside an existing Staff Okta engineer, who remains the senior technical voice on Okta. This is a hands-on delivery role with day-to-day ownership of Okta Workforce Identity.
What you'll be doing
Okta platform and automation
- Own Okta Workforce Identity day to day, including sign-on and authentication policies, device assurance, admin roles, groups, and app integrations using SAML, OIDC and SCIM.
- Bring Okta configuration under Terraform, with peer review, testing and staged releases.
- Build joiner, mover and leaver automation from Workday through Okta using Okta Workflows and APIs.
- Support federation between Okta and Auth0 for staff access to customer platforms.
Passwordless sign-in
- Lead the move to passwordless sign-in: roll out device-bound passkeys and Okta FastPass for everyone, use FIDO2 hardware keys where mandated, and enforce policies group by group until nobody can sign in with a password.
- Design recovery so that access is restored through identity verification, rather than a help-desk reset or a link to a personal inbox.
Verified onboarding and recovery
- Integrate an identity verification service