Staff Software Engineer

Opportunity

As a Staff Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved in the development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale. You will shape the architecture and evolution of our product features — spanning across different access governance personas — and work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design to deliver features that are secure, scalable, and delightful to use.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• 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 our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping development and deployment work

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a 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 the ability to make complex technical topics accessible to both engineers and non-engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Additional Requirements

• There is no citizenship requirement. The Okta employee must be on US Soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101.