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Okta

Senior Software Engineer (TS/SCI)

$147K–$202K

Virginia +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026

Location
Virginia
United States
Experience
5+ years in software engineering, shipping enterprise cloud software.

About the job

Build and adapt Okta Identity Governance for government customers, including full-stack development and deployment in high-compliance and classified environments.

What you'll do

  • Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including support for disconnected, air-gapped, and top-secret environments.
  • Maintain security controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring, and ensure deployments meet government security standards.
  • Improve reliability and engineering practices, partner with Product and Design on customer outcomes, and help raise the team’s technical bar.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years in software engineering, shipping enterprise cloud software.
  • Hands-on coding at scale in Java, Python, or TypeScript, plus API and UI automation experience.
  • Experience with CI/CD, containers, and a major cloud platform; proven scalable backend architecture and complex API integration experience.
  • Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly; proven experience with FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6).

Nice to have

  • Experience with restricted federal infrastructure, air-gap architectures, access controls, zero-trust frameworks, or secure transfer mechanisms.
  • Experience in identity governance and administration, broader IAM, or compliance contexts such as SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP.

Pay

$147,000 — $202,000 USD annual base salary

Tools

Java, Python, TypeScript, REST, gRPC, Playwright, Selenium, CircleCI

AI focus

Apply AI meaningfully across the software development lifecycle, evaluate and adopt AI tools, and establish AI-augmented engineering practices for the team.

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