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Okta's Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to design and develop security solutions that harden frameworks and infrastructure. This is a high-impact role combining deep security domain expertise with software engineering excellence to protect Okta's customers at scale.
You will act as a technical liaison between the Security and Engineering organizations, influencing the security roadmap and direction while building features on a weekly release cadence. Your responsibilities include researching, designing, and owning security-oriented frameworks; evangelizing security best practices across engineering; participating in cross-vertical code reviews with security emphasis; and coaching junior engineers. You'll work on defense-in-depth measures, OWASP mitigation, cryptography, authentication/authorization, and secure SDLC practices without compromising product performance or user experience.
Required qualifications: 7+ years of software development experience in Java building mission-critical systems; 3+ years designing and implementing security solutions for applications and distributed systems; strong understanding of OWASP Top 10, application security, cryptography, and role/attribute-based access controls; experience with secure code reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability mitigation; familiarity with AWS/GCP; knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL), Redis, and Elasticsearch; B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or related field.
This role offers the opportunity to work on career-defining security challenges in a fast-paced, security-centric organization poised for significant growth. You'll have autonomy to propose new projects using emerging technologies and will be empowered to shape Okta's security posture as the company transforms cloud computing.
