Staff Software Engineer

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Technology, Data, and Intelligence Team

Okta’s Technology, Data, & Intelligence organization is on a mission to simplify and secure internal operations through automation, analysis, and scale. Our Productivity Engineering team is responsible for developing internal tooling, infrastructure and services that empower Okta employees to work as effectively as possible.  

We work across engineering, data science, security, and internal business teams to deliver automation-powered services that integrate across a wide array of SAAS apps and internally developed infrastructure to Okta. A growing focus for our team has been an investment of cycles into AI agentic platforms, workflow orchestration, and data analytic dashboarding. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving tough problems and building with purpose.

The Staff Software Engineer Opportunity

Reporting to Mat Clinton, this role will you’ll play a key role in designing and developing platforms and services that support Okta’s internal transformation. You’ll help build the infrastructure and applications that make intelligent automation and GenAI real for our workforce — all while ensuring performance, security, and reliability at enterprise scale.This is a hands-on IC role for someone who thrives on system design, loves to build, and wants to grow their influence across a fast-moving engineering team.

What you’ll be doing 

• Design and build production grade internal services that integrate GenAI and automation into core business workflows (e.g., virtual agents, RAG, enterprise search)
• Work closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to deliver features from prototype to production, with a focus on quality and user experience
• Contribute to platform architecture decisions, especially around LLM integration, API design, and system observability
• Write clean, maintainable code in languages like Python or Go, and build services using containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deploy cloud infrastructure to GCP & AWS using IAAS like Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar
• Promote engineering best practices around testing, security, CI/CD, and operational readiness
• Participate in design reviews, troubleshooting sessions, and peer mentorship to support a strong, collaborative engineering culture

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and maintaining production services at scale
• Experience working with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and API-based integrations
• Exposure to AI/ML concepts, and interest in applying LLMs, NLP, or automation tools in practical use cases
• A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and desire to work across team boundaries
• Curiosity and a desire to learn — especially around AI technologies, enterprise platforms, and building responsibly

Why Join Okta

• Okta is on a mission to become the most secure company in the world, while also looking to adopt the most cutting edge technologies in AI, help us achieve both goals to accelerate our mission
• Build With Purpose: Work on meaningful problems that simplify and secure how Okta operates
• Grow in a Human-Centered Culture: Join a supportive, humble team that values technical excellence and personal development

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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: $170,000—$254,000 USD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! .

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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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