Solutions Engineer (Auth0, Central/West USA)

Join Okta, a leading identity and access management company, as a Solutions Engineer. In this role, you will be involved in all stages of the customer's digital transformation, providing technical expertise and product demonstrations to help customers understand the value of Okta's solutions. You will work closely with the sales team, answer technical questions, deliver proof of concepts, and provide feedback to product management. This position offers the opportunity to work from home, with various benefits including health and wellness, financial benefits, and time off.

• Collaborate with the sales team as the technical and domain expert to help Enterprise 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.
• Plan and deliver Proof Of Concepts for customers who have more complex use cases, collaborating with other Okta engineering teams as needed.

• Experience with lifecycle management, role-based access control (RBAC), and provisioning/deprovisioning
• Strong understanding of IAM concepts, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML
• 5+ years of pre-sales engineering experience in IAM
• Experience working with REST APIs, API Gateways, and SDKs
• Deployed applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Vercel, etc.)
• 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
• Understanding of core security concerns in applications (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF)
• Elite communication skills, confident in dispensing knowledge and presenting to highly skilled and experienced audiences
• 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
• Diagramming experience for user journey flows, complex architecture diagrams, etc
• Territory management skills, including pipeline building and collaboration with sales counterparts for execution excellence
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, or a comparable field is preferred
• Experience with Auth0, Auth0 FGA, or OpenFGA
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI or LLM technology (LangChain, GenKit, LlamaIndex, etc.)
• Developed ReBAC or Fine-Grained Authorization models
• Experience integrating with micro services, data lakes, or customer data platforms