Okta

Principal Software Engineer

Okta
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Base Salary

$200k - $308k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own feature areas end to end from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring.
  • Design, build, and ship secure, scalable, reliable, and high-performance features across the OIG system.
  • Deliver bug fixes and resolve customer-reported issues.
  • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and uphold high engineering-quality standards.
  • Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams on development and deployment scope.
  • Architect and evolve access governance product features across multiple enterprise personas.
  • Drive technical alignment across teams and stakeholders through influence without authority.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3+ years in a senior- or staff-level technical leadership role.
  • Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems serving enterprise customers in production.
  • 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.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Experience with identity, access management, governance, or IAM/IGA products is preferred.
  • Familiarity with workflow engines, finite state machines, or BPM-style approval and routing systems is preferred.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms is preferred.
  • Hands-on cloud infrastructure and modern observability experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • Equity, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave are offered according to applicable plans and policies.
  • The employee must be on US soil; there is no citizenship requirement.
  • The role includes an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
  • Okta offers well-being support, social impact programs, talent development, and community-building opportunities.
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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