Okta

Senior Solutions Engineer

Okta

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Colorado, New York, Washington

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AndroidAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformiOSJavaJavaScriptNode.jsPHPPythonRuby

About the role

  • Work alongside the sales team as the technical and domain expert of a customer-facing sales team to help Customers understand the value of Okta’s solutions.
  • Understand customer challenges and business issues and provide product demonstrations to align our solutions with customer needs.
  • Answer product feature and technical questions from customers, partners and Okta colleagues.
  • Plan and deliver Proof Of Concepts for customers who have more complex use cases, collaborating with other Okta engineering teams as needed.
  • Provide feedback to product management about product enhancements that can address customer needs and provide additional value.
  • Share and learn best practices and re-usable assets with other Solutions Engineers to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team.
  • Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation.
  • Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows.
  • At times, be asked to learn and lead your team as a subject matter expert (SME) with various product solutions and/or competitive knowledge.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of pre-sales engineering experience in IAM.
  • Strong understanding of IAM concepts, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML.
  • Experience with lifecycle management, role-based access control (RBAC), and provisioning/deprovisioning.
  • Hands-on experience in one or more of the following development areas: web (JavaScript, HTML, frontend frameworks), mobile (iOS, Android), backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby), or IP-based real-time communications.
  • Experience working with REST APIs, API Gateways, and SDKs.
  • Deployed applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Vercel, etc.).
  • Understanding of core security concerns in applications (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF).
  • Passion for serving customers, demonstrated in a customer-facing role (ideally pre-sales, but consulting or support also valued).
  • Ability to quickly communicate complex technical ideas, including on-the-fly whiteboard explanations.
  • Elite communication skills, confident in dispensing knowledge and presenting to highly skilled and experienced audiences.
  • Territory management skills, including pipeline building and collaboration with sales counterparts for execution excellence.
  • Diagramming experience for user journey flows, complex architecture diagrams, etc.
  • Bachelor\'s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, or a comparable field is preferred.
  • Typically 25% travel.
  • (Not mandatory) Experience with Auth0, Auth0 FGA, or OpenFGA.
  • (Not mandatory) Hands-on experience with Generative AI or LLM technology (LangChain, GenKit, LlamaIndex, etc.).
  • (Not mandatory) Experience integrating with micro services, data lakes, or customer data platforms.
  • (Not mandatory) Developed ReBAC or Fine-Grained Authorization models.