Staff Backend Engineer, Non Human Identities | Okta

Okta Inc

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$194,000–$267,300 / yr
Posted
43 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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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.[

Okta Inc currently has 145 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Backend Engineer, Non Human Identities | Okta

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Join the Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team as a Staff Backend Engineer and help architect the high-performance core of our non-human identity platform. You will collaborate with principal engineers to design and implement low-latency, high-throughput systems for managing machine-to-machine authentication and authorization at massive scale. Your responsibilities include writing concurrent, performance-critical code, defining long-term technical roadmaps, and mentoring junior engineers. Essential skills include deep expertise in Go development, distributed systems, secure system design, and cloud-native infrastructure. Ideal candidates have experience with secrets management, service mesh technologies, and contributions to open-source projects in identity and security. This role demands a strong background in backend or systems-level development, with a focus on reliability and scalability for enterprise-level solutions.

Skills

Go gRPC openAPI PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes Terraform AWS CI/CD TLS PKI CAs Secrets Management Service Mesh Machine Identity Platform Cloud-Native Infrastructure Git Linux

What you'll do

  • Contribute to designing and implementing a low-latency secrets engine for non-human identities.
  • Write concurrent code handling millions of machine-to-machine authentication requests.
  • Define the long-term technical roadmap for scalability and performance.
  • Mentor junior engineers in software development lifecycle practices.
  • Participate in on-call rotational activities with SRE and product teams.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of backend or systems-level software engineering experience
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Expertise in multi-platform Go development and building high-performance, concurrent applications
  • Experience designing or operating distributed systems and secure systems (authn/authz, encryption)
  • Direct experience with secrets management, service mesh, or machine identity platforms
  • Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure and API design for reliability at scale

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