Staff Engineer - Identity Security at Scale

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 267,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Staff Engineer for the OIG team to own design, development, and maintenance of enterprise-scale features. You will influence architecture across access governance personas, collaborating with engineering, product, and design to deliver secure, scalable capabilities used by thousands of enterprises.

This role emphasizes systems thinking and craft, shaping how identity and access governance work for millions of users in a fast-moving SaaS environment, with focus on reliability,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in production environments.
• Experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale.
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or Go (or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages).
• Ability to influence without authority — driving technical alignment across teams.
• Experience designing systems for enterprise reliability, scalability, and security (multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, RBAC/ABAC).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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.

Skills

8+ years

Distributed systems

Java

Kotlin

Go

Microservices

RBAC/ABAC

Education

B.S. Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Okta is seeking a Staff Engineer for the OIG team to own design, development, and maintenance of enterprise-scale features. You will influence architecture across access governance personas, collaborating with engineering, product, and design to deliver secure, scalable capabilities used by thousands of enterprises.

This role emphasizes systems thinking and craft, shaping how identity and access governance work for millions of users in a fast-moving SaaS environment, with focus on reliability,