Staff Privacy Engineer (Auth0)

Okta; New York (NY); Remote; USD 168,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Privacy Engineer and elevate the privacy of customer identity products. This role involves collaborating with diverse teams to tackle data privacy challenges and develop innovative privacy solutions. You'll be part of a dynamic engineering team focused on building scalable infrastructure and implementing privacy controls. If you're passionate about data privacy and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the opportunity for you. Enjoy a flexible work environment with amazing benefits and the chance to make a social impact.

Benefits

Equity

Health/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid Leave

Flexible Work Environment

Social Impact Opportunities

Community Development Programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on development experience with microservices in Golang.
• Experience with privacy automation, impact assessments, and user data protection.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to embed technical privacy practices in all deliverables.
• Build, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure for customer identity products.

Skills

Golang

Microservices

Privacy Automation

Database Principles

Strong Communication Skills

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

DBT

Kafka

AWS

Azure

Snowflake

MongoDB

Job description

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World's Identity Company. We enable everyone to securely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds provide secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation, transforming how people navigate the digital world and placing Identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we value diverse perspectives and experiences. We are not seeking candidates who check every box but those who are lifelong learners and can bring unique insights to improve us.

Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Role

We are looking for a knowledgeable, development-focused Privacy Engineer to elevate the privacy of our Customer Identity products, data, and infrastructure. This key member of the Privacy team, embedded within the Customer Identity product unit, collaborates across functions to address data privacy challenges supporting our global Customer Identity business. Our engineering team aims to develop innovative privacy technology and implement controls to mitigate privacy threats. You will work with a distributed team of engineers passionate about data privacy and solving complex scale problems.

This role involves close collaboration with Product Engineering, Data Engineering, and Legal teams to execute data privacy strategies for Okta's customer identity solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Engineering, Legal, Data, and Product teams to embed technical privacy practices in all deliverables and proactively identify risks.
• Contribute to developing new privacy features, tools, and scalable solutions to support privacy initiatives for stakeholders.
• Foster a community of data stewards supporting privacy engineering efforts.
• Coordinate with Privacy Engineering leadership on planning, prioritization, and progress tracking.
• Build, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure and privacy solutions for customer identity products.
• Assist with privacy investigations alongside Legal and Compliance teams, including root cause analysis and remediation.

What this position is not:

• Security engineering, incident response, code reviews, or compliance-focused roles.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on development experience with microservices in Golang.
• 3+ years of experience conducting privacy or security reviews, recommending design patterns, and assessing trade-offs.
• Working knowledge of database principles, including SQL, noSQL, and DBT.
• Experience with privacy automation, impact assessments, data inventory, user data protection, encryption, anonymization, and pseudonymization.
• Strong communication skills and experience working with remote, distributed teams.

Bonus points if you have experience with:

• Full-stack engineering, data pipelines, Kafka, protocol buffers, identity and access management, governance, GDPR, CCPA, cloud privacy (AWS, Azure), Snowflake, MongoDB.

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Salary range for candidates in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington: $168,000—$252,000 USD, depending on skills, experience, and location. Okta offers additional benefits including equity, bonus, health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and paid leave. More details at https://rewards.okta.com/us.

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Community

Okta promotes a flexible, empowering work environment with tools and benefits to support productivity and well-being. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/. Some roles may require travel for onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or other protected statuses. We accommodate applicants with disabilities upon request.

For more about our privacy practices, see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.