Okta
Staff Software Engineer, OIG
$174K–$267K
Bellevue, Washington +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, Washington
United States - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- No citizenship requirement; the Okta employee must be on US Soil, defined as the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States.
About the job
Owns the design, development, and operation of enterprise-scale Okta Identity Governance features, working across teams to deliver secure, reliable software.
What you'll do
- Own feature areas end to end, from technical design through deployment and post-launch monitoring.
- Design, build, test, and ship production features, bug fixes, and customer-reported issue resolutions.
- Coordinate development and deployment work with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience and demonstrated ownership of 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; experience with enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements.
Nice to have
- Experience in 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 (base salary); $174,000 — $239,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Kotlin, Go, AWS, GCP, Azure
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