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About the Role

Okta is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join the Technology, Data, and Intelligence Team. This role will focus on building and maintaining scalable data solutions, particularly for HR data, to support AI initiatives and drive employee experience and growth goals. The position offers an opportunity to do career-defining work in a mission-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve high-scale data solutions serving as the organization's reference architecture.
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting systems.
• Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, documentation norms, and metric governance standards.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across data verticals to accelerate delivery and harden data systems.
• Make sound technical decisions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term infrastructure investment.
• Implement data contracts and schema evolution practices to ensure reliability across global product teams.
• Mentor senior engineers, lead cross-functional task forces, and foster a culture of engineering excellence and data-driven decision-making.
• Stay at the forefront of the data landscape, adopting and advocating for emerging technologies and practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years in a data engineering role, with proven experience in a senior or lead capacity.
• Experience with Federal government compliance and security requirements is highly desirable.
• Expert-level experience with SQL, ETL/ELT tools (Airflow, dbt), and MPP databases (Snowflake, Redshift).
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services (S3, Lambda, EMR, ECR, EKS).
• Expertise in HR data, specifically in candidate lifecycle, employee records, compensation, and organizational data.
• Experience designing data models that capture recruiting analytics, engagement signals, and workforce planning metrics.
• Experience building and maintaining batch and real-time pipelines using technologies like Spark, Kafka.
• Deep experience designing and working with modern lakehouse and warehouse architectures (Databricks, Snowflake) and modern file formats (Iceberg, Delta).
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact.
• Track record of hands-on collaboration with Data Science, Business, and Product teams.

Skills

• SQL
• ETL/ELT tools (Airflow, dbt)
• MPP databases (Snowflake, Redshift)
• AWS services (S3, Lambda, EMR, ECR, EKS)
• Spark
• Kafka
• Lakehouse architectures
• Warehouse architectures
• Iceberg
• Delta
• AI tools

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Principal
• 10+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $197,000—$270,600 USD (San Francisco Bay Area)
• $176,000—$242,000 USD (California excluding SF Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Washington)

Benefits

• Equity (where applicable)
• Bonus
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the Company

• Okta is the leading independent identity provider.
• The Technology, Data, and Intelligence (TDI) organization powers Okta's global workforce, providing the technology and systems that enable employees to do their best work.
• Okta's mission is to secure every identity, from AI to human, by building trusted, neutral infrastructure.
• Okta is intentional about connection, with a global community spanning over 20 offices worldwide, united by a drive to innovate.
• The onboarding experience is immersive and in-person, designed to accelerate impact and connect new hires to the 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.
• Okta considers for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for the job application, interview process, or onboarding.
• Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in recruitment and hiring for applicants or employees residing in New York City.