Demo Engineer

Demo Engineer

About Okta

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

About the Role

Demo Engineering sits at the intersection of go-to-market and product, serving as a global accelerator for Okta's technical sales success. Our team provides our internal and partner technical sellers worldwide with the capabilities to quickly and securely showcase how Okta secures identity for employees, customers, and AI agents.

As a member of this team, you'll have a global impact on Okta’s go-to-market technology strategy: the demo components and customer experiences you build will be used by hundreds of Solution Engineers across dozens of countries, reaching thousands of customers and prospects. You'll work in a highly collaborative, engineering-driven culture where we prioritize reusability, automation, and self-service enablement. We're building the platform and tooling that makes Okta's field organization more effective, scalable, and customer-focused.

What You'll Get To Do

• Design and build reusable demonstration assets that encapsulate product configurations used across multiple demonstrations for solution-oriented outcomes.
• Work directly with field teams to understand customer perspectives to capture their expectations, preferences, and aversions in a “Voice of the Customer”.
• Work with Field Readiness team to drive adoption of the Demo Platform within the go-to-market organization.
• Build analytics and reporting to track demo usage and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering to prepare assets to support demonstrations of new product introductions.
• Participate in the release planning process to influence the product direction based on customer feedback.
• Create supporting documents for demos like technical demonstration guides and video examples.

Technical Foundations

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of developer experience with Enterprise SaaS products.
• Full Stack development experience: React.js, Node.js, AWS Serverless patterns (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS and SNS).
• Experience designing and building for multi-tenancy and tenant isolation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools.
• API integration experience for connecting applications to identity platforms.
• Working technical knowledge of digital identity and authentication (OAuth, OIDC & SAML).

Mindset and Work Style

• Global First: Comfortable working in and supporting a globally distributed team.
• Self-Directed and Proactive: Identifies opportunities to improve and drives solutions without waiting for direction.
• Collaborative: Thrives in cross-functional environments working with field teams, product, and engineering.
• Systems Thinker: Balances immediate needs with long-term scalability and reusability.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Ability to gather and synthesize "Voice of Customer" feedback into actionable requirements.

Nice to Have

• Experience with demo engineering teams or technical marketing.
• Experience with presales.
• Experience with Okta or Auth0.

Compensation and Benefits

OTE Range (San Francisco Bay Area): $179,000 - $246,000 USD

OTE Range (California (excluding SF Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, Washington): $160,000 - $220,000 USD

Okta offers equity (where applicable) 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. Learn more about our Total Rewards program: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

The Okta Experience

• Supporting Your Well-Being
• Driving Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

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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