6 hours ago
Base Salary
$174k - $239k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain robust backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces for the Identity Governance and Administration 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, and continuous monitoring for classified networks.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure deployments meet stringent governmental security standards.
- Drive improvements to CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, technical debt, and support processes.
- Partner with Product and Design to own desired customer outcomes.
- Mentor peer engineers and 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.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience shipping enterprise cloud software.
- Hands-on coding experience at scale using Java, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience with REST or gRPC APIs and UI automation using Playwright, Selenium, or an equivalent.
- Experience with CI/CD, CircleCI or an equivalent, Docker, Kubernetes, and a major cloud platform.
- Ability to apply, evaluate, and adopt AI tooling across the software development lifecycle and establish effective team practices.
- Proven ability to define scalable backend architectures, integrate complex APIs with modern web technologies, and make architectural decisions with lasting organizational impact.
- Deep expertise building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software in Java or another type-safe language.
- High proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and the ability to ship robust frontends.
- Understanding of web authentication, authorization, and protection of sensitive user data.
- Preferred experience with FedRAMP, DoD Impact Levels, air-gapped systems, air-gap architectures, strict access controls, zero-trust frameworks, or data diode and secure transfer mechanisms.
- Preferred experience with identity governance, identity and access management, SSO, SCIM provisioning, directory integration, privileged access, and platforms such as Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, or Oracle.
- Preferred compliance experience with SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP, including audit evidence validation.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $174,000–$239,000 USD for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area, plus equity where applicable, bonus, and benefits.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, paid leave, PTO, and parental leave in accordance with applicable plans and policies.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-HYBRID designation.
- Immersive in-person onboarding experience and 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.