Staff Software Engineer, Okta

$170-254k

Okta offers equity (where applicable) and bonus

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Terraform

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

Be an early applicant

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Be an early applicant

$170-254k

Okta offers equity (where applicable) and bonus

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Terraform

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Company mission

To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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

What the job involves

Reporting to the 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
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

Our take

Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.

The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. They aim to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.

Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

19% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Trustpilot (1.4)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Sep 2015

$75m

SERIES F

Jun 2014

$75m

SERIES E

Total funding: $229.3m

Company benefits

Work from home opportunities
Health + Wellness
Financial Benefits
Pay + Incentives
Time Off
Everyday Living
Resources

Company HQ

The East Cut, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Todd McKinnon

(CEO)

VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.

Frederic Kerrest

(Vice Chairman)

Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.

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