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Salary: USD 174,000 - 239,000 / annual
Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the OIG (Identity & Access Governance) 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 work on architecting and evolving product features that serve enterprise customers at scale, collaborating closely with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver secure, scalable, and user-friendly solutions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning complex feature areas end-to-end, ensuring high quality and reliability
- Designing and shipping production-ready features across the OIG system with focus on correctness, reliability, and performance
- Rapidly delivering bug fixes and handling customer-reported issues
- Writing clean, well-tested, maintainable code and maintaining high engineering standards
- Partnering with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams on scoping and deployment
- Influencing technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders
This is a rare opportunity to shape how thousands of enterprises manage access governance at scale, working on genuinely hard technical challenges where your decisions directly impact millions of users.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in production
- 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 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
- Experience designing systems meeting enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements (multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, RBAC/ABAC)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, making complex technical topics accessible to 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 (finite state machines, BPM-style systems)
- Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms serving large, complex customer organizations
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern observability tooling
