Principal Software Engineer

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Okta

Okta

Okta is a leading independent provider of identity solutions for enterprises, offering a comprehensive range of products and services to connect and protect employees, partners, and customers. With a focus on secure access, authentication, and automati...

Professional Services
5K-10K
Founded 2009

Description

  • Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring.
  • Design, build, and ship production-ready features across the OIG system with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance.
  • Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and resolve customer-reported issues.
  • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and uphold high engineering quality standards.
  • Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to scope development and deployment work.
  • Contribute to the architecture and evolution of product features across different access governance personas.
  • Work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design to deliver secure and scalable features.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a senior or staff-level technical leadership role.
  • Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems in production for enterprise customers.
  • Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native backend languages.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Experience designing systems that meet enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements, including multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, and RBAC/ABAC.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Preferred: Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with workflow engines or approval/routing systems such as finite state machines or BPM-style systems.
  • Preferred: Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms serving large, complex customer organizations.
  • Preferred: Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus modern observability tooling.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $184,000 to $276,000 USD for candidates in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington.
  • Equity eligibility where applicable.
  • Bonus opportunity.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Flexible spending account.
  • Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
  • Flexible remote work designation (#LI-Remote).

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