Staff Software Engineer (Federal)
Okta · San Francisco, California
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**Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human** Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. --- ## The Okta Identity Governance Team Okta Identity Governance (OIG) is Okta’s Identity Governance and Administration solution, responsible for critical enterprise identity workflows—how people request access, how approvers grant it, how entitlements are enforced, and how organizations prove to auditors that only the right people have the right access. OIG supports high-compliance public sector workloads and is expanding to support the most secure, highly classified environments in government. --- ## Staff Software Engineer (Federal) Opportunity As a **Staff Fullstack Engineer on the OIG (Federal) team**, your mission is to adapt the OIG product to the needs of government customers. You will design, build, and maintain both robust backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces. The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems and a commitment to AI-native engineering—rethinking backend design, validation, and delivery through AI-augmented workflows to ensure secure, interoperable, scalable access enforcing the principle of least privilege. --- ## What You’ll Be Doing - Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure across high-compliance security baselines. - Support operations transitioning into disconnected, air-gapped, and top-secret defense environments. - Maintain strict security controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring for classified networks. - Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure deployments meet stringent governmental security standards. - Proactively identify and prioritize tech debt; drive improvements beyond feature work (CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes). - Partner with Product and Design to own the desired customer outcome. - Invest in the growth of peer engineers and raise the team’s technical bar. --- ## What You’ll Bring To The Role - **Must be a U.S. Citizen** and have an active clearance or be able to obtain and maintain a high-level government security clearance (e.g., Secret / Top Secret / SCI). - **8+ years** in software engineering, shipping enterprise cloud software. - Hands-on depth coding at scale using **Java, Python, or TypeScript**, plus **API** (REST, gRPC) and **UI automation** (Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent). - Experience with **CI/CD** (CircleCI or equivalent), **containers** (Docker, Kubernetes), and a major cloud platform. - Ability to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle—evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment and establish practices with the team. - Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies; able to make and defend architectural decisions with lasting org-wide impact. - Solid understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals and best practices for securing sensitive user data. --- ## And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following - **Federal Infrastructure Expertise:** building/scaling/troubleshooting infrastructure in restricted environments (e.g., FedRAMP Medium/High, DoD Impact Levels, or air-gapped systems). - **Network &am
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