Okta
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We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their customers' experiences. With over 14,000 customers, 7000+ app integrations, and well over 200 million registered users, we are only getting started.
The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale.
We're looking for a staff-level fullstack engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative, and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership, we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.
Leverage cutting-edge AI pair-programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products.
Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based privileged access management solutions.
Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features using modern JavaScript and cloud-native backend technologies.
Lead technical design for key initiatives, driving quality, scalability, and maintainability.
Build reusable and performant UI components for a best-in-class no-code builder experience.
Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new features and common platform components.
Evaluate existing systems to evolve them for serving in specialized circumstances to support Okta's future business needs
Conduct thorough design and code reviews, ensuring that proposed solutions account for scalability, redundancy, and multi-tenancy. Uphold high programming standards by consistently writing comprehensive unit and functional tests
Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks the team owns
Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers
Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers
Proven expertise leveraging AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC) while maintaining high code quality.
Immense passion for doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth,
Extensive experience with cloud based software security product development.
Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
A good understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms”
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
9+ years of extensive programming experience in a modern programming language like Go, Java, or C++ especially in backend services. Go is preferred, but not mandatory.
Good knowledge of modern frontend javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue etc.
4+ years experience working with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing and querying databases with optimization in mind is a plus.
Demonstrated experience of working with REST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals
Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker
Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
Familiarity with Agile software development process
Previous experience at Security firms is a huge plus
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Must attend in-person onboarding the first week of employment in San Francisco, CA
Must go to office 2 days a week
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:
$180,000—$247,000 USD
The Okta Experience
Supporting Your Well-Being
Driving Social Impact
Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.
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