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Salary: USD 165,000 - 227,000 / annual
Okta is seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join the Identity Governance (Federal) team. The OIG product is Okta's leading Identity Governance and Administration solution, responsible for critical enterprise workflows including access requests, approval processes, entitlement enforcement, and audit compliance. OIG is the leading contributor to Okta's new product bookings and operates at scale within some of the world's largest enterprises, managing hundreds of thousands of identities across thousands of applications.
Your mission is to adapt the OIG product to meet the specialized needs of government customers, with a focus on supporting high-compliance public sector workloads and expanding into the most secure, highly classified government environments.
In this role, you will actively design, build, and maintain both robust backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces. You will architect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure across high-compliance security baselines. You will support operations transitioning into disconnected, air-gapped, and top-secret defense environments while maintaining strict security controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring for classified networks.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure across high-compliance security baselines
- Support operations transitioning into disconnected, air-gapped, and top-secret defense environments
- Maintain strict security controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring for classified networks
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure software deployments meet stringent governmental security standards
- Proactively identify and prioritize tech debt; drive improvements in CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes
- Partner with Product and Design to understand and own desired customer outcomes
- Actively invest in the growth of peer engineers and raise the technical bar of the team
You will rethink backend design, validation, and delivery through AI-augmented workflows, ensuring the platform provides secure, interoperable, and scalable access while enforcing the principle of least privilege.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain a high-level government security clearance (Secret/Top Secret/SCI) based on mission requirements
- 5+ years in software engineering, shipping enterprise cloud software
- Hands-on depth in coding at scale using Java, Python, or TypeScript, plus API experience (REST, gRPC) and UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent)
- Experience with CI/CD (CircleCI or equivalent), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and a major cloud platform
- Advanced AI tool usage—understands how to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle, can evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment, and can establish practices and bring a team along
- Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies, including the ability to make and defend architectural decisions with lasting org-wide impact
- Solid understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals—how auth flows work and best practices for securing sensitive user data
- Deep expertise in building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software in Java or another type-safe language
- High proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript with true fullstack range, including the ability to ship robust frontends
BONUS EXPERIENCE:
- Federal infrastructure expertise: hands-on experience building, scaling, and troubleshooting infrastructure in restricted environments (FedRAMP Medium/High, DoD Impact Levels, air-gapped systems)
- Network & security isolation: understanding of air-gap architectures, strict access controls, zero-trust frameworks, and data diode/secure transfer mechanisms
- Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) experience—access requests, certifications, entitlement management, separation of duties, role modeling (Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Oracle, or in-house)
- Identity and Access Management more broadly: SSO, SCIM provisioning, directory integration, or privileged access
- Work experience in a compliance context—SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP—including audit evidence validation
