Okta
Staff Software Engineer
$174K–$267K
San Francisco, California +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- No citizenship requirement. The employee must be on US soil: the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or U.S. outlying areas as defined in FAR 2.101.
About the job
Own the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise access governance features in Okta’s OIG system.
What you'll do
- Own feature areas end to end, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Build and ship reliable, secure, high-quality OIG features, and address bugs and customer-reported issues.
- Coordinate development and deployment with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering; drive technical alignment across teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including independently owning and delivering complex production features.
- Track record architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems for enterprise customers.
- Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale; experience meeting enterprise reliability, scalability, and security needs.
- Proficiency in one or more of Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta’s backend stack.
Nice to have
- Experience with identity, access management, or governance products; workflow engines or approval/routing systems; or enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern observability tooling.
Pay
$194,000 — $267,000 USD (annual base salary; San Francisco Bay Area); $174,000 — $239,000 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 job builds access governance software; the posting does not specify AI development duties.
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