okta

Staff Software Engineer, Non-Human Identity

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At a Glance

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work Regime
hybrid
Experience
8+ years
Posted
2026-03-09T16:04:07-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

LinuxPostgreSQL

Domain Knowledge

  • Cybersecurity
  • Engineering
  • Insurance

Requirements

Required Experience:

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a heavy focus on backend or systems-level development

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

Core Technical Expertise:

Deep, hands-on expertise in multi-platform Go development and building high-performance, concurrent applications

Experience designing or operating distributed systems

Compensation & Benefits

$194,000

$267,000 USD

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

Amazing

Responsibilities

Contribute to Core Architecture:

Partner with principal engineers and architects to design and implement a low-latency, high-throughput secrets engine for non-human identities

Solve for Massive Scale:

Write highly concurrent, performance-critical code capable of handling millions of machine-to-machine authentication and authorization requests

Shape Technical Strategy:

Play a key role in defining the long-term technical roadmap for scalability and performance, ensuring our platform can meet the demands of the largest enterprises

Team

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team is building the future of identity for machines, services, and applications. We are seeking a world-class Staff Engineer to help us architect and build the high-performance core of our non-human identity platform.

Your work, in close collaboration with our principal engineers and architects, will be the foundation of our strategy for managing privileged access in the modern enterprise. If you are a systems programmer who thrives on influencing the design of high-performance, concurrent, and resilient security software, this is the role for you.