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Salary: CAD 160,000 - 220,000 / annual
Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Identity & Access Governance (OIG) team. In this role, you will take end-to-end ownership of feature areas spanning the access governance platform—from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. You will design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale.
You will work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design to deliver features that are secure, scalable, and delightful to use. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, leads with craft, and is energized by the challenge of building enterprise-grade software that millions of users depend on. Your technical decisions will directly shape how thousands of enterprises manage access governance at scale.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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 Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping development and deployment work
- Influence without authority—driving technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in production environments
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments 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. 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
