Okta

Staff Software Engineer - Okta Identity Governance

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Base Salary

$194k - $267k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own feature areas end to end, from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring.
  • Design, build, and ship reliable, scalable, secure, and performant features across the Okta Identity Governance system.
  • Deliver bug fixes and resolve customer-reported production issues.
  • Write maintainable, well-tested code and uphold high engineering-quality standards.
  • Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams on development and deployment planning.
  • Influence technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex production features.
  • Experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems for enterprise customers.
  • Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages.
  • Experience designing systems meeting enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements, including multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, and RBAC/ABAC.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Preferred experience with identity, access management, identity governance, workflow or approval systems, enterprise SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, and observability tooling.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $194,000-$267,000 for candidates 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.
  • In-person onboarding is required during the first week of employment in San Francisco, California.
  • Hybrid schedule requiring two days in the office per week.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support.
Okta

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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