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# Principal Software Engineer (Auth0)

- **Company:** Okta, Inc.
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $274,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System
- **Published:** June 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/17406203/Principal-Software-Engineer-Auth0-Washington-Bellevue

## About 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

## Description

We are looking for a very senior, knowledgeable Software Architect (P6) that both wants to be hands on and think about the industry big picture at the same time:

 * 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


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