Okta
Staff Software Engineer
$174K–$267K
San Francisco, California +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California
United States - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- No citizenship requirement; employee must be on US Soil, defined as the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States under FAR 2.101.
About the job
Owns the design, development, and maintenance of Okta’s OIG access governance product for enterprise customers, delivering secure, reliable features at scale.
What you'll do
- Own feature areas end to end, from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring.
- Design, build, and ship production-ready features, and quickly fix bugs and customer-reported issues.
- Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering on development and deployment.
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.
- Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack.
Nice to have
- Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms.
- Experience with workflow or approval/routing systems, enterprise SaaS, or cloud infrastructure and 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
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