Senior Software Engineer- Okta Identity Governance

About the role

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.

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's Identity Governance (OIG) organization is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team — a team that is directly responsible for one of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how employees request, approve, and gain access to the resources they need.

Opportunity

As a Senior Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved in 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 the across different access governance personas — and work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design to deliver features that are secure, scalable, and delightful to use.

This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, leads with craft, and is energized by the challenge of building enterprise-grade software that millions of users depend on.

This is a rare opportunity to join a team where your technical decisions will directly shape how thousands of enterprises manage access governance at scale, where the technical challenges are genuinely hard, and where the work you ship will be seen and felt by real users every day.

Job Duties And 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, 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

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

5+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in a production environment

Experience in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale

Solid experience with one or more of: Java, Kotlin, Go , or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack

Practical experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment

Ability to produce clear technical designs and documentation , communicate trade-offs effectively, and build consensus with teammates

Strong debugging and problem-solving skills , with the ability to navigate and reason about complex, multi-service systems

A track record of delivering features with high quality — including meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end test coverage

Good communication skills and a collaborative working style — comfortable working across engineering, product, and design

Preferred if you have experience in any of the following!

Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms

Familiarity with workflow engines or approval/routing systems

Experience working in multi-tenant SaaS environments serving enterprise customers

Practical experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Education

B.S. Computer Science or equivalent

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, 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/can .

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$136,000 $187,000 CAD

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