This role pays less than
61%
of similar roles. Most pay
$172,500–$238,250
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$191k
versus about
$205k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
137 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$174,000–$239,000
across 137 roles with salary data.
As a Staff Identity Engineer on the internal Identity team, you will serve as a technical authority driving the architecture and execution of the organization's identity fabric. You will act as a bridge between internal stakeholders and product teams to lead early adoption of new features while managing the lifecycle, policy design, and federation for enterprise tenants. Your daily work involves building API-based pipelines to automate workflows, enforcing cloud IAM guardrails across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and governing machine identities and service-to-service authentication. You will utilize Okta Identity Engine, Terraform, and Okta Workflows while leveraging protocols like OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, and FIDO2/WebAuthn. This role solves complex security challenges by securing the foundational trust layer for both human users and autonomous AI workloads within a multi-cloud environment.