okta

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (FedRamp)

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At a Glance

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work Regime
hybrid
Experience
8+ years
Posted
2026-03-06T16:29:38-05:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSJavaKafkaKubernetesSnowflake

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering
  • Insurance

Requirements

8+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java

Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including

Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka

Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam

Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop

Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos

Compensation & Benefits

$194,000

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$267,000 USD

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

Amazing

Responsibilities

This is an opportunity for experienced Software Engineers to join our fast growing Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake.

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who can help design and own the building, deploying and optimizing the streaming infrastructure. This project has a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have a sizable impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems.

Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components

Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation

Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning

Team

The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform team solves challenges and enables:

Streaming analytics

Interactive end-user reporting

Data and ML platform for Okta to scale

Telemetry of our products and data

Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.