AI Infrastructure Architect

Overview

AI Infrastructure Architect – We are looking for a smart and versatile AI Infrastructure Architect to build and evolve the AI infrastructure and platform that powers our identity security solutions. Your work will enable internal teams and product groups to integrate AI capabilities safely, securely, and at scale—empowering Okta’s mission to protect millions of digital identities worldwide. While your primary focus will be to architect scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure supporting AI-driven tools, frameworks, and identity services, we value someone who isn’t afraid to get hands-on when needed to help solve complex challenges and drive projects forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead AI enablement initiatives, including proof-of-concepts for emerging AI infrastructure technologies and integration approaches.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, security, data science, and product teams to align AI platform architecture with business and security goals.
• Architect scalable, resilient, and secure AI infrastructure that supports AI-powered tools and features across Okta’s Identity Platform.
• Lead infrastructure decisions across AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments with a focus on secure identity data handling
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Helm) to ensure consistent, reproducible deployment of AI services
• Champion security and compliance by embedding data privacy and identity protection standards directly into the AI platform and infrastructure design.
• Serve as the key advocate and strategist for AI-driven efficiency initiatives across infrastructure platform teams and pre-production systems.
• Implement robust MLOps practices, such as model evaluation, rollback strategies, and A / B testing, to guarantee the reliability and governance of AI in production.
• Drive continuous innovation by staying current with AI and cloud infrastructure trends and evangelizing best practices internally.

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Desired Qualifications

What You’ll Gain

Compensation

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit : https : / / rewards.okta.com / us.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between :

$263,000—$395,000 USD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today!

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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