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About the Role

Okta's Identity Governance (OIG) organization is seeking a Senior Engineer to develop, design, and maintain our product for enterprise customers. This role involves architecting product features across different access governance personas and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and user-friendly features. It's an opportunity for someone who excels at systems thinking and building enterprise-grade software.

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, focusing on correctness, reliability, and performance.
Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues.
Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and uphold high engineering quality standards.
Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping development and deployment work.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in a production environment.
Experience in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale.
Solid experience with one or more of: Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages.
Practical experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment.
Ability to produce clear technical designs and documentation, communicate trade-offs effectively, and build consensus.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate and reason about complex, multi-service systems.
A track record of delivering features with high quality, including meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end test coverage.
Good communication skills and a collaborative working style.

Skills

Java
Kotlin
Go
microservices
event-driven architectures
APIs
data modeling
distributed systems
cloud environment
debugging
problem-solving
identity
access management
governance (IAM/IGA)
workflow engines
approval/routing systems
multi-tenant SaaS environments

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

B.S. Computer Science or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

$136,000—$187,000 USD

Benefits

Equity (where applicable)
Bonus
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
RRSP with a match
Healthcare spending
Telemedicine
Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the Company

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human. Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Supporting Your Well-Being
Driving Social Impact
Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Equal Opportunity

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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