Staff Software Engineer

San Francisco · United States · 8+ years experience · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

As a Staff Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved into development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale.
You will involve the architecture and evolution of our product features spanning across different access governance personas and work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design.

Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance
Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates to a high bar for engineering quality
Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work

8+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in a production environment
Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments serving enterprise customers
Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale
Strong proficiency in one or more of: Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack
Demonstrated ability to influence without authority driving technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders
Experience designing systems that meet enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical topics accessible to both engineers and non-engineers
B.S. Computer Science or equivalent
The Okta employee must be on US Soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101

Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms
Familiarity with workflow engines or approval/routing systems
Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms serving large, complex customer organizations
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and modern observability tooling