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About Okta Inc
Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[
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As a Senior Software Engineer, OIG, you will join the OIG team to drive the development, design, and maintenance of products serving enterprise customers at scale. You will take end-to-end ownership of feature areas, moving from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. Your daily work involves building high-quality, production-ready features while ensuring correctness, reliability, and performance across the OIG system. To succeed, you must possess expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling. The role requires proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or Go to manage backend systems. You will solve complex technical challenges regarding access governance, multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, and RBAC/ABAC. This position focuses on building secure, scalable infrastructure for identity and access management, specifically addressing the complexities of enterprise-grade software used by millions of users daily.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $207500 from 315 postings across 35 companies.
Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas from technical design through implementation and post-launch monitoring.
Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features focused on correctness, reliability, and performance.
Deliver high-quality bug fixes and resolve customer-reported issues quickly.
Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while upholding high engineering standards for the team.
Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to scope development and deployment work.
Architect and deliver large-scale distributed systems that meet enterprise requirements for security and scalability.
Drive technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders to influence product direction.
What we're looking for
Must have a B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering complex features in production.
Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed systems for enterprise customers.
Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale.
Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages.
Ability to influence without authority to drive technical alignment across multiple teams.
Experience designing systems for enterprise reliability, scalability, and security (multi-tenancy, high availability, RBAC/ABAC).
Experience with identity, access management, or governance products (preferred); experience with workflow engines (preferred); experience with enterprise SaaS platforms (preferred); hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and observability tools (preferred).
Microservices
Event-driven Architecture
APIs
Data Modeling
Java
Kotlin
Go
JVM
AWS
GCP
Azure
IAM
IGA
RBAC
ABAC
SaaS
Finite State Machines
BPM
Observability
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Amazon RDS
Aurora
Azure
GCP
Python
Java
Go
Terraform
CloudFormation
Git
GitLab
GitHub
Linux
Containers
Ansible
Chef
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
SRE
DRE