Okta
Senior Software Engineer, AI
Chicago, Illinois · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$165k-$247kDetected 2 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactVue.jsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerRESTMachine LearningLLMsRAGAI OrchestrationIncident ResponseDesign Systems
About the role
- As a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI, you'll play a key role in building user-facing and backend systems that leverage GenAI to improve internal experiences and operations.
- This role requires strong full-stack engineering skills, with an emphasis on both AI integration and building intuitive, performant UIs that make AI accessible and useful to our internal customers.
- You'll work closely with software engineers, product managers, and designers to build secure, intelligent tools for employees across Okta.
Responsibilities
- Design and build end-to-end GenAI-powered applications, including web-based UIs, API services, and backend orchestration.
- Implement and integrate LLM-based experiences using frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and tools like OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini.
- Define, implement, and champion operational excellence standards (SLOs, observability, incident response frameworks) for all services deployed.
- Develop responsive, accessible, and modern frontend interfaces using frameworks like React or Vue - with a focus on usability, performance, and trust in AI outputs.
- Build and maintain a library of reusable frontend components and hooks that allow other business delivery teams to easily "drop in" GenAI capabilities into their own applications.
- Build and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with vector search and embedding strategies (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS, Qdrant).
- Collaborate with designers and product managers to rapidly iterate on UX patterns for AI-powered experiences (e.g., prompt inputs, citations, summaries).
- Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure services scale reliably across the org.
- Strong Python development skills and 2+ years experience building cloud-based services using AWS, Docker, and RESTful APIs.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, design, and product teams - with a strong sense of user empathy and technical ownership.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of software engineering experience with full-stack development, including 2+ years of building AI/ML-driven applications.
- 5+ years of experience in frontend technologies like React, TypeScript, or Vue, and comfort working on UI/UX for internal tools or enterprise applications.
- Hands-on experience with LLM integration, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, or orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex.
Skills
- Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
- Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
- This is an opportunity to do career-defining work.
Compensation
- The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the
- $165,000 - $247,000 USD
- Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington.
- Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.
- The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding
Benefits
- Ensure security, privacy, observability, and test coverage across the full stack.
- Bonus: Exposure to design systems, AI evaluation tooling, or real-time application performance monitoring.
- To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
This listing is sourced directly from Okta's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.