Senior Software Engineer, OIG

Opportunity

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

This is a role for someone who thinks in systems leads with craft and is energized by the challenge of building enterprise-grade software that millions of users depend on.

This is a rare opportunity to join a team where your technical decisions will directly shape how thousands of enterprises manage access governance at scale where the technical challenges are genuinely hard and where the work you ship will be seen and felt by real users every day.

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 the 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 Oktas 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 (think: 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

• 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

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

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$165000 - $227000 USD