okta
Staff Software Engineer, Non-Human Identity
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
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
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$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.