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Salary: USD 174,000 - 239,000 / annual
Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Federal) to join the Identity Governance (OIG) team, which builds critical identity governance and administration solutions for enterprise and government customers. OIG is Okta's leading product for new bookings and operates at massive scale—supporting hundreds of thousands of identities across thousands of applications in some of the world's largest enterprises.
The OIG team currently supports high-compliance public sector workloads and is expanding to serve the most secure, highly classified government environments. In this role, you will architect, design, build, and maintain both robust backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces for government customers with the most stringent security requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure across high-compliance security baselines
- Support operations in disconnected, air-gapped, and top-secret defense environments
- Maintain strict security controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring for classified networks
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure deployments meet governmental security standards
- Identify and prioritize technical debt; drive improvements in CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes
- Partner with Product and Design to own customer outcomes, not just technical deliverables
- Invest in peer engineer growth and raise the technical bar across the team
You will work as a fullstack engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems and AI-native engineering practices. The role requires rethinking backend design, validation, and delivery through AI-augmented workflows to ensure secure, interoperable, and scalable access enforcement.
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
- 8+ years in software engineering, shipping enterprise cloud software
- Hands-on depth in coding at scale using Java, Python, or TypeScript, plus REST/gRPC APIs 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: understand how to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle, evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment, and establish practices to bring a team along
- Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies; 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 ability to ship robust frontends
DESIRABLE 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 and security isolation: understanding of air-gap architectures, strict access controls, zero-trust frameworks, and data diode/secure transfer mechanisms
- Identity Governance and Administration (IGA): access requests, certifications, entitlement management, separation of duties, role modeling (Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Oracle, or in-house)
- Identity and Access Management: SSO, SCIM provisioning, directory integration, privileged access
- Compliance context experience: SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, including audit evidence validation
