2 hours ago
Base Salary
$165k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and frontend interfaces for the Okta Identity Governance Federal product.
- 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, continuous monitoring, reliability, documentation, and support processes for classified networks.
- Collaborate with engineering, Product, and Design teams to deliver secure customer outcomes and meet government security standards.
- Identify and prioritize technical debt and improve CI/CD, observability, reliability, and deployment practices.
- Mentor peer engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Must possess an active clearance or be able to obtain and maintain a high-level government security clearance such as Secret, Top Secret, or SCI.
- 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 an equivalent tool.
- Experience with CI/CD, CircleCI or an equivalent, Docker, Kubernetes, and a major cloud platform.
- Deep expertise in scalable backend architecture, secure enterprise-grade software, complex API integration, and modern web technologies.
- High proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and the ability to ship robust frontends.
- Understanding of web authentication, authorization, and practices for securing sensitive user data.
- Ability to apply AI meaningfully across the software development lifecycle, evaluate AI tooling, and establish team practices.
- Preferred experience with FedRAMP Medium/High, DoD Impact Levels, air-gapped systems, zero-trust frameworks, data diodes, secure transfer mechanisms, or restricted infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with identity governance and administration, including access requests, certifications, entitlement management, separation of duties, or role modeling.
- Preferred experience with Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Oracle, SSO, SCIM provisioning, directory integration, privileged access, SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $165,000-$227,000 for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area, excluding equity and bonus.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- Hybrid work arrangement, as indicated by the #LI-HYBRID designation.
- Immersive in-person onboarding experience with connection to the team and company mission.
- Opportunities for talent development, well-being support, social impact, and community connection.
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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.