Role Overview
As a Staff Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved in the development, design, and maintenance of products to serve enterprise customers at scale, shaping how thousands of enterprises manage access governance.
About Okta
Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. They focus on solving complex challenges with real-world stakes and are looking for builders who operate with speed and urgency.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
- Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code
- Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping development and deployment work
Requirements & Eligibility
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments
- Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale
- Strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or Go
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority
- Experience designing systems that meet enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent
Required Skills & Tech
JavaKotlinGoMicroservicesEvent-driven architectureAPI DesignData ModelingDistributed SystemsIAM/IGACloud InfrastructureAWSGCPAzure