Okta

Staff Identity Engineer

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2 months ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$161k - $221k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the lifecycle, policy design, adaptive MFA, and federation of enterprise Okta tenants.
  • Architect and enforce cloud IAM guardrails across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Build API-based and automation-first pipelines for identity workflows.
  • Lead Customer Zero adoption of Okta capabilities and provide technical feedback to product engineering teams.
  • Mentor engineers, lead IAM design reviews, and establish technical standards across teams.
  • Govern AI agents, machine identities, and service-to-service authentication.
  • Partner with Security, Audit, and Compliance teams to align identity controls with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP.
  • Drive session lifecycle security, token management, continuous access evaluations, and operational KPIs.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-scale IAM solutions.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with enterprise Okta environments, including Okta Identity Engine, Directory Integrations, Advanced Policies, Workflows, and Platform APIs.
  • Advanced knowledge of OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, FIDO2, WebAuthn, and Passkeys.
  • Experience defining identity controls as code with Terraform and Okta Workflows.
  • Experience designing cloud IAM guardrails across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including machine-to-machine and service-to-service authentication.
  • Background in session lifecycle security, token management and revocation, and continuous access evaluations such as CAEP and eSSO.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and establishing engineering best practices.
  • Practical experience building identity controls aligned with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP.
  • Employee must work on U.S. soil and qualify as a U.S. person under the stated federal definitions.
  • Occasional travel is required.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $161,000–$221,000 for specified locations, with equity where applicable, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
  • Access to well-being support, social impact programs, talent development, and community-building initiatives.
  • Immersive in-person onboarding experience; the role is based on U.S. soil and requires occasional travel.
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About Okta

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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