23 days ago
Base Salary
$147k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain robust backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces for the Identity Governance and Administration product.
- Define scalable backend architectures and integrate complex APIs with modern web technologies.
- Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure across high-compliance security baselines.
- Support operations in disconnected, air-gapped, and top-secret defense environments.
- Maintain security controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring for classified networks.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure deployments meet stringent governmental security standards.
- Drive improvements to technical debt, CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes.
- Partner with Product and Design to own customer outcomes and mentor peer engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping enterprise cloud software.
- Hands-on coding experience at scale with Java, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience with REST or gRPC APIs and UI automation using Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent.
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and a major cloud platform.
- Ability to apply, evaluate, and establish AI tooling and practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Proven ability to define scalable backend architectures and make architectural decisions with lasting organizational impact.
- Strong understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals and secure handling of sensitive user data.
- Deep expertise building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software in Java or another type-safe language.
- High proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and the ability to ship robust frontend applications.
- Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly.
- Proven experience with Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6.
- Employee must be on U.S. soil and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance as required by government contracts.
- Preferred experience includes restricted infrastructure, air-gap architectures, zero-trust frameworks, data diodes, secure transfer mechanisms, identity governance, Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Oracle, SSO, SCIM provisioning, directory integration, privileged access, SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP audit evidence validation.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $147,000–$202,000 USD for specified locations, plus equity where applicable, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-HYBRID designation.
- In-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate impact and connect employees with the team.
- Well-being support, social impact programs, talent development, and community-building initiatives.
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About Okta
Okta builds cloud-based identity and access management for enterprises and developers, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management. It sells subscription SaaS as the Okta Workforce Identity and Customer Identity Clouds; the latter incorporates Auth0, acquired in 2021. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Okta is a public company traded on Nasdaq.