Okta, Inc.
Staff Software Engineer - Backend (IGA)
Okta, Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Okta# Staff Software Engineer - Backend (IGA)San Francisco, CA**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.Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,950 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customersThe vision is to make Okta the de facto provider of the cloud identity and access management, and help customers migrate to cloud based identity and access management solution.Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) team is one of the fastest moving teams in Okta.
Our mission is to build a unified
solution so that our customers can improve their security posture while mitigating modern security risks and increasing efficiency.
We are now looking for more talented people joining us to redefine what a modern Governance solution should look like.## ResponsibilitiesAs an engineer in IGA team, you will* Discuss, challenge and iterate the product design together with the product team* Build highly resilient and scalable Okta Identity Governance solution* Design and build REST API to be used by 7000+ Okta customers and partners* Work with management and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies* Write Unit Test, Functional Test and Integration Test* Participate in scrum activities, including daily standup, planning, review, retro, etc## Required Skills* 4 years+ of software development experience, with at least 1 years experience building highly resilient and scalable enterprise software* Experience with high performance Postgres or MySQL environments* Experience with REST API design* Experience with Java* Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading## Nice to Haves* Exposure to gRPC API development* Exposure to micro service architecture* Experience with Spring and Hibernate* Exposure to ML/AI technologies\*\*Must attend in person onboarding in San Francisco the first week of employment.#LI-MM
#LI-HybridBelow is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California. 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: $188,000—$282,000 USD**What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!*** Amazing* Making* DevelopingOkta 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.
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.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this to request an accommodation.Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at .Individuals seeking employment at this company are considered without regards to race, color, religion,national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genderidentity, or sexual orientation. When submitting your application above, you are being given theopportunity to provide information about your race/ethnicity, gender, and veteran status.Completion of the form is entirely **voluntary**. Whatever your decision, it will not beconsidered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded andmaintained in a confidential file.If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate bymaking the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to Vietnam Era Veterans ReadjustmentAssistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreachand positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air servicewho is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled tocompensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was dischargedor released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date ofsuch veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S.military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaignbadge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S.military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which anArmed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.**Pay Transparency**Okta complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules. For additionalinformation about the federal requirements, .**Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability
Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026**We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this #J-18808-Ljbffr
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.Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,950 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customersThe vision is to make Okta the de facto provider of the cloud identity and access management, and help customers migrate to cloud based identity and access management solution.Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) team is one of the fastest moving teams in Okta.
Our mission is to build a unified
solution so that our customers can improve their security posture while mitigating modern security risks and increasing efficiency.
We are now looking for more talented people joining us to redefine what a modern Governance solution should look like.## ResponsibilitiesAs an engineer in IGA team, you will* Discuss, challenge and iterate the product design together with the product team* Build highly resilient and scalable Okta Identity Governance solution* Design and build REST API to be used by 7000+ Okta customers and partners* Work with management and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies* Write Unit Test, Functional Test and Integration Test* Participate in scrum activities, including daily standup, planning, review, retro, etc## Required Skills* 4 years+ of software development experience, with at least 1 years experience building highly resilient and scalable enterprise software* Experience with high performance Postgres or MySQL environments* Experience with REST API design* Experience with Java* Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading## Nice to Haves* Exposure to gRPC API development* Exposure to micro service architecture* Experience with Spring and Hibernate* Exposure to ML/AI technologies\*\*Must attend in person onboarding in San Francisco the first week of employment.#LI-MM
#LI-HybridBelow is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California. 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: $188,000—$282,000 USD**What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!*** Amazing* Making* DevelopingOkta 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.
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.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this to request an accommodation.Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at .Individuals seeking employment at this company are considered without regards to race, color, religion,national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genderidentity, or sexual orientation. When submitting your application above, you are being given theopportunity to provide information about your race/ethnicity, gender, and veteran status.Completion of the form is entirely **voluntary**. Whatever your decision, it will not beconsidered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded andmaintained in a confidential file.If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate bymaking the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to Vietnam Era Veterans ReadjustmentAssistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreachand positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air servicewho is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled tocompensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was dischargedor released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date ofsuch veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S.military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaignbadge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S.military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which anArmed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.**Pay Transparency**Okta complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules. For additionalinformation about the federal requirements, .**Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability
Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026**We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this #J-18808-Ljbffr