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Salary: CAD 136,000 - 187,000 / annual
Okta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the OIG (Identity & Access Governance) team in Toronto. In this role, you will own the full lifecycle of feature development—from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring—for enterprise-grade identity and access governance products serving thousands of organizations at scale.
You will work on architecting and evolving product features across different access governance personas, collaborating closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and user-friendly solutions. This is an individual contributor role focused on technical excellence and systems thinking. You will design and build high-quality, production-ready features with emphasis on correctness, reliability, and performance; quickly deliver bug fixes and respond to customer-reported issues; write clean, well-tested, maintainable code; and partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams on scoping and deployment.
The role is ideal for someone who thinks in systems, leads with craft, and is energized by the challenge of building enterprise software that millions of users depend on. Your technical decisions will directly shape how enterprises manage access governance at scale, and the work you ship will be seen and felt by real users every day.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in production environments
- Proven track record architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production serving enterprise customers
- Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale
- Strong proficiency in one or more of: Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority—driving technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Experience designing systems that meet enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements (multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, RBAC/ABAC)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to make complex technical topics accessible to both engineers and non-engineers
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
PREFERRED:
- Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms
- Familiarity with workflow engines or approval/routing systems (e.g., finite state machines, BPM-style systems)
- Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms serving large, complex customer organizations
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern observability tooling
