Staff Engineer, FGA DevEx
Okta · Posted Sep 11
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. The FGA DevEx team owns the SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python and Java, along with CLI workflows, IDE integrations, GitHub automation, developer documentation, and release strategy — all developed in the open as open source, with a guiding principle of one developer experience, many deployment models. As a Staff Engineer, you will define technical direction, ensure cross language consistency, influence API design in partnership with FGA Core, and raise the quality bar across all developer facing tooling.
What you will do
- Define and drive the technical direction for FGA DevEx, CLI, IDE integrations, and developer automation across OSS and SaaS.
- Lead architectural decisions for multi language SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python, and Java, leveraging and evolving the SDK generator that forms the core of all clients.
- Own and evolve the SDK generator framework, templates, and wrapper patterns to ensure cross language consistency, configurability, and long term maintainability.
- Establish standards across SDKs for authentication flows such as client credentials, error mapping and handling, retry logic with appropriate rate limiting strategies, and method level configuration overrides.
- Ensure advanced SDK capabilities such as BatchCheck, ListRelations, and non transactional write operations are implemented with appropriate parallelization, performance safeguards, and consistency across languages.
- Own and evolve the release and versioning strategy for SDKs and developer tooling.
- Drive improvements to CLI workflows, GitHub Actions, CI pipelines, and developer focused documentation and examples.
- Ensure high engineering standards for testing, mocking external requests, dependency management, performance, and minimal external dependencies.
- Lead development fully in open source, review community pull requests, guide contributors to a mergeable state, and improve contribution workflows and community health.
- Partner closely with FGA Core on API design and semantics, and with internal consumers such as Dashboard to ensure developer friendly interfaces.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the Developer Tooling team.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant experience building SDKs, developer platforms, or tooling.
- Proficiency in at least one, and ideally multiple, of the following: Go, JavaScript or TypeScript, C# .NET, Python, or Java.
- Strong understanding of SDK design principles, API ergonomics, and cross language consistency.
- Experience designing or maintaining code generation systems such as OpenAPI Generator and templating frameworks.
- Experience designing authentication flows, retry strategies, rate limiting, and resilient client side systems.
- Experience setting up and maintaining GitHub Actions and release workflows.
- Strong testing practices including mocking external services and validating client behavior.
- Experience working in open source projects and PR based contribution models. Experience maintaining or leading open source projects is strongly preferred.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams and operate effectively in a distributed, open development environment.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with internal teams and external contributors.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Okta
Okta is a leading independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions that securely connect people and technologies to the right applications. The company powers both Workforce Identity and Customer Identity platforms, allowing organizations to securely manage user access and navigate modern challenges like agentic AI security.
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Company size
- 7500+ employees
- Founded
- 2009
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $228M raised
- 2010-02-01Series A$10M
- 2011-08-01Series B$16.5M
- 2012-12-01Series C$25M
- 2013-09-01Series D$27M
- 2014-06-01Series E$75M
- 2015-09-01Series F$75M
- 2018-02-21Post IPO Debt$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Legal Officer
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