Okta
Principal Software Engineer
$200K–$308K
San Francisco, California +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California
United States - Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or staff-level technical leadership role.
- Education
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent
- Visa sponsorship
- No citizenship requirement. The Okta employee must be on US Soil: the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and maintenance of Okta’s enterprise access governance product, delivering secure, reliable features for large-scale customers.
What you'll do
- Own feature areas end to end, from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Design, build, and ship production-ready features, prioritizing correctness, reliability, and performance.
- Resolve bugs and customer-reported issues, and collaborate with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering.
What they ask for
- At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level technical leadership role.
- Track record architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems in production for enterprise customers.
- Expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale; proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native backend languages.
- Ability to influence technical alignment across teams and design systems for enterprise reliability, scalability, and security.
Nice to have
- Experience with identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products; workflow engines or approval/routing systems.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and modern observability tooling.
Pay
$224,000 — $308,000 USD annual base salary (San Francisco Bay area); $200,000 — $275,000 USD annual base salary (California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington)
Tools
Java, Kotlin, Go, AWS, GCP, Azure
AI focus
The role develops access governance software. The posting frames Okta’s broader mission as securing AI but does not specify AI-focused duties for this role.
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