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Salary: USD 194,000 - 267,000 / annual
Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the OIG (Okta Identity Governance) team. In this role, you will take end-to-end ownership of feature areas spanning access governance, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. You will design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance.
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
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in a production environment
- 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:
- 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
