Staff Software Engineer, Identity Administration
Okta · Posted Oct 9
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta's Identity Governance (OIG) organization builds the trusted, neutral identity infrastructure that enterprises use to manage access at scale, and the Identity Administration team owns one of the most visible workflows in enterprise identity: how employees request, approve, and gain access to the resources they need. As a Staff Engineer on this team, you will own feature areas end to end — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring — building secure, scalable, high-performance services across distributed systems for enterprise customers. The role works collaboratively with engineering, product, and design partners and shapes how thousands of enterprises manage access governance.
What you will do
- Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
- Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance
- Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates to a high bar for engineering quality
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8 to 13 years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang, with a deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing.
- Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens, specifically for service-to-service communication.
- Demonstrated AI fluency in agentic systems and modern AI applications.
- Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services with in-depth knowledge in distributed systems / micro services architectures.
- Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale.
- Hands-on experience with AWS (Fargate, EC2, Lambda) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform). You should be comfortable managing your own cloud resources.
- Strong proficiency with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD automation tools (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions).
- B.S. Computer Science or related field
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog for monitoring and troubleshooting production issues.
- Familiarity with Kafka or SQS for handling cross-org asynchronous events.
- Basic familiarity with React/JavaScript to help integrate backend services.
- Understanding of how to build and deploy services across isolated infrastructure units
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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