Staff Software Engineer - Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their customers' experiences. With over 14,000 customers, 7000+ app integrations, and well over 200 million registered users, we are only getting started.

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale.

We're looking for a staff-level fullstack engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative, and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual 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 that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.

You Will

• Leverage cutting-edge AI pair-programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products.
• Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based privileged access management solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features using modern JavaScript and cloud-native backend technologies.
• Lead technical design for key initiatives, driving quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Build reusable and performant UI components for a best-in-class no-code builder experience.
• Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new features and common platform components.
• Evaluate existing systems to evolve them for serving in specialized circumstances to support Okta's future business needs
• Conduct thorough design and code reviews, ensuring that proposed solutions account for scalability, redundancy, and multi-tenancy. Uphold high programming standards by consistently writing comprehensive unit and functional tests
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks the team owns
• Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers
• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers

You Have

• Proven expertise leveraging AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC) while maintaining high code quality.
• Immense passion for doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth,
• Extensive experience with cloud based software security product development.
• Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
• A good understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms”
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
• 9+ years of extensive programming experience in a modern programming language like Go, Java, or C++ especially in backend services. Go is preferred, but not mandatory.
• Good knowledge of modern frontend javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue etc.
• 4+ years experience working with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing and querying databases with optimization in mind is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience of working with REST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals
•  Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker
•  Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
•  Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
•  Familiarity with Agile software development process
•  Previous experience at Security firms is a huge plus

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

*Must attend in-person onboarding the first week of employment in San Francisco, CA

* Must go to office 2 days a week

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