Okta

Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI

San Francisco, California · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$224k-$308kDetected 5 days ago

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLAWSMachine LearningLLMsLangGraphResearch

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63Sponsors, lottery-bound

Cap-exempt (no lottery)0

Sponsors this role96

Entry-level history0

PERM / green-card track0

Lottery odds (Level IV)94

Fits your clock70

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H-1B wage level

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Level IV · 4×

Level I$137,0931 entry

Level II$165,1312 entries

Level III$193,1493 entries

Level IV$221,1874 entries

This range already reaches Level IV — the maximum four lottery entries.

DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 6 green-card filings in this occupation, 100% were for a worker who already held the job.

Green-card follow-through: 89%

Of 19 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 2 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 502 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.

Files H-1B transfers

22 transfer filings in the last year, covering 22 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

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About the role

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
You will help shape the product with the ownership and pace of a startup and the resources of a public company.

Responsibilities

Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Build the agent harness for planning, tool use, memory, context compaction, interruption and recovery during long-running work.
Evaluate existing harnesses and build only the missing pieces.
Build evaluation datasets and replay tests for valid findings, access decisions, app setup and AI agent onboarding.
Hands-on experience building agent workflows or evaluation systems for tool-using LLM applications.

Requirements

Experience with OpenAI or Anthropic is especially relevant.

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.
The Principal Software Engineer Opportunity
They investigate risk, use tools, wait for approvals and complete tasks across enterprise systems.

Compensation

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area.

Company info

We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
The team works directly with Todd McKinnon, Okta's co-founder and CEO, with the opportunity to bring this product to Okta's 20,000+ customers.
Bring depth in agent execution or model quality and help turn it into working software customers can trust.

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