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About the Role
Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Identity Threat Protection (ITP) engineering team. This role offers an opportunity to solve critical and complex security challenges for enterprises by designing, building, launching, and scaling world-class security products from concept to global deployment. The position involves technical leadership, architectural design, and a player-coach approach within a fast-paced, innovative, and autonomous environment.
Responsibilities
- Architect and lead the design, development, delivery, and supportability of cloud-native security products.
- Drive collaboration and build cross-group partnerships with engineering, product management, design, support, and documentation teams.
- Uphold programming standards through rigorous code reviews and comprehensive testing.
- Lead remote teams, ensuring product quality, agility, and velocity.
- Act as a player-coach to mentor, groom, and educate junior engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
- Demonstrated history of technical leadership and mentorship.
- Deep expertise in Java, including object-oriented design, multithreading, and building high-performance services.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating complex, large-scale distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Strong grasp of architectural patterns for scalability, reliability, and security.
- Ability to lead technical design discussions and make informed trade-offs.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to independently debug and remediate issues.
- Proactive and ownership-driven mindset with the ability to manage priorities.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- A powerful security background and a proven track record of championing best practices.
Skills
- Java
- Object-oriented design
- Multithreading
- High-performance services
- Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Architectural patterns
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Security
- Problem-solving
- Debugging
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Security best practices
- Anomaly detection systems
- Risk systems
- Cloud security
- Identity
- Authentication protocols
- Modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000—$220,000 CAD
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
- Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral infrastructure.
- The Identity Threat Protection (ITP) team delivers real-time defense against evolving threats using Okta AI.
- ITP integrates with security infrastructure to analyze user behavior and data, neutralizing risks.
- The team is composed of full-stack engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers.
- Okta is redefining cloud authentication and engineering a next-gen security platform.
- ITP acts as a guardian of trust and security, prioritizing risk in authentication and authorization.
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.