okta
Principal Software Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Work Regime
- remote
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Posted
- 2026-06-16T15:54:26-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Cloud
- Engineering
- Insurance
- SaaS
Benefits & Perks
health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and
Requirements
in a senior or staff-level technical leadership role
Proven track record of
architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed systems
in production environments serving enterprise customers
Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale
, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack
Responsibilities
Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance
Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates to a high bar for engineering quality
Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work