Staff Software Engineer, Non-Human Identity

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.

The Team

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team is building the future of identity for machines, services, and applications. We are seeking a world-class Staff Engineer to help us architect and build the high-performance core of our non-human identity platform.

Your work, in close collaboration with our principal engineers and architects, will be the foundation of our strategy for managing privileged access in the modern enterprise. If you are a systems programmer who thrives on influencing the design of high-performance, concurrent, and resilient security software, this is the role for you.

What you’ll be doing 

• Contribute to Core Architecture:
  • Partner with principal engineers and architects to design and implement a low-latency, high-throughput secrets engine for non-human identities
• Solve for Massive Scale:
  • Write highly concurrent, performance-critical code capable of handling millions of machine-to-machine authentication and authorization requests
• Shape Technical Strategy:
  • Play a key role in defining the long-term technical roadmap for scalability and performance, ensuring our platform can meet the demands of the largest enterprises
• Mentor and Elevate:
  • As a senior engineer on the team, you will work with junior engineers to help them advance their SDLC expertise.
• On-Call:
  • Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development team 

What you’ll bring to the role

• Required Experience:
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a heavy focus on backend or systems-level development
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• Core Technical Expertise:
  • Deep, hands-on expertise in multi-platform Go development and building high-performance, concurrent applications
  • Experience designing or operating distributed systems
  • Experience with secure systems (authn/authz, encryption, TLS, token handling, PKI, CAs, diagnosing TLS issues)
  • Deep expertise in distributed storage systems, with a focus on replication, backup, and restore, and data management. (Postgres, etc.)
  • Direct experience designing, building, or contributing to a secrets management, service mesh, or machine identity platform
  • Expert-level at ergonomic API design (gRPC/openAPI), and building for reliability at scale
  • Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure
• Key Attributes:
  • You are driven by the challenge of optimizing systems for performance, latency, and throughput, with a proven ability to diagnose complex, multi-system issues
  • You have a proven track record of making significant contributions to the architecture of complex, mission-critical systems
  • You thrive in an environment where you can focus on deep technical problems
• Bonus Points:
  • Experience at a leading Cybersecurity or Infrastructure-as-Code company
  • Contributions to open-source projects in the identity, security, or infrastructure space 

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! 

• Deep expertise in backend systems engineering
• Experience building and scaling beyond standard three-tier monolithic architectures, with a focus on modern distributed systems
• Have worked on projects with complex, established systems
• Possess significant, hands-on experience in a Linux/Unix environment

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. 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: .   

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $194,000—$267,000 USD

The Okta Experience

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.

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