Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise IAM & Scale

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

Job summary

Okta Inc. in San Francisco is hiring a Staff Engineer to own major feature areas across the OIG system, guiding design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. You will shape architecture for scalable access governance services used by enterprise customers.

You will collaborate with product, QA, and SRE teams to deliver secure, reliable software, demonstrate leadership, and mentor engineers while maintaining code quality and performance at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in production environments.
• Experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling.
• Ability to influence across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas — from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Design, build, and ship production-ready features across the OIG system, with correctness, reliability, and performance.
• Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues.
• Write clean, well-tested code and uphold engineering quality standards.
• Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping and deployment.

Skills

Architecting large-scale distributed

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

APIs

Data modeling at scale

Influence without authority

Strong communication

Education

B.S. Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Go

Job description

Okta Inc. in San Francisco is hiring a Staff Engineer to own major feature areas across the OIG system, guiding design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. You will shape architecture for scalable access governance services used by enterprise customers.

You will collaborate with product, QA, and SRE teams to deliver secure, reliable software, demonstrate leadership, and mentor engineers while maintaining code quality and performance at scale.