Okta
Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
$194K–$267K
San Francisco, California +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of programming experience; 3+ years with MySQL or equivalent relational databases; 3+ years with Kubernetes web services.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent; master’s preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status upon hire.
About the job
Designs, builds, operates, and scales shared cloud infrastructure and backend services used across Okta’s engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Develop and roll out shared infrastructure features and frameworks; operate, support, upgrade, and scale them.
- Review designs and code, write tests, monitor and troubleshoot services, and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Guide junior engineers and collaborate with architecture, QA, product, security, and operations teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 8+ years of programming experience in an object-oriented language, especially Java backend services.
- 3+ years working with MySQL or equivalent relational databases.
- 3+ years developing, operating, optimizing, and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes; experience with REST and the listed backend technologies.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree.
- AWS EKS, GCP, gRPC, database query tuning, or enterprise SaaS experience.
Pay
$194,000 — $267,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Tomcat, AWS
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