Staff Software Engineer - Okta Identity Governance
Okta · San Francisco, California
About this role
**Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human** Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral infrastructure that helps organizations safely embrace this new era. As a **Staff Software Engineer** on the **Okta Identity Governance (OIG)** team, you’ll be involved in the development, design, and maintenance of our product for enterprise customers at scale. You’ll help shape the architecture and evolution of product features across different access governance personas, collaborating with engineering, product, and design to deliver secure, scalable, and delightful experiences. This role is for someone who thinks in systems, leads with craft, and is energized by building enterprise-grade software that millions of users depend on. --- ## Opportunity - Join a team where your technical decisions directly shape how thousands of enterprises manage access governance at scale. - Work on genuinely hard technical challenges with real-world impact. - Ship work that is seen and felt by real users every day. --- ## Job Duties & Responsibilities - Take **end-to-end ownership** of feature areas (technical design → implementation → testing → deployment → post-launch monitoring). - Design, build, and ship **high-quality, production-ready** features across the OIG system, focused on correctness, reliability, and performance. - Deliver **high-quality bug fixes** and handle customer-reported issues. - Write **clean, well-tested, maintainable** code and hold a high bar for engineering quality. - Partner with **Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering** to scope development and deployment work. --- ## Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities - **8+ years** of software engineering experience; demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex production features. - Proven track record 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: **Java, Kotlin, Go**, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native backend languages. - Demonstrated ability to **influence without authority** and drive technical alignment across teams and stakeholders. - Experience designing systems meeting **enterprise reliability, scalability, and security** requirements (e.g., multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, RBAC/ABAC). - Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to make complex technical topics accessible to engineers and non-engineers. --- ## Preferred (Nice to Have) - 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. --- ## Education - **B.S. Computer Science** or equivalent. --- ## Location / Work Requirements - **Must attend in-person onboarding** the first week of employment in **San Francisco, CA**. - **Must go to office 2 days a week.** - **#LI-MM** | **#LI-Hybrid** --- ## Compensation (San Francisco Bay Area) Annual base salary range: **$194,000 – $267,000 USD**. Okta also offers equity (where applic
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