Staff Software Engineer, Non-Human Identity | Okta

Okta Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $194,000–$267,000 / yr
Posted: 87 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.[

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Non-Human Identity | Okta

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Join the Okta Privileged Access Management team as a Staff Engineer and help architect the high-performance core of our non-human identity platform, collaborating closely with principal engineers to design low-latency systems for managing privileged access. You will write concurrent, performance-critical code handling millions of machine-to-machine requests daily while shaping the technical roadmap for scalability and reliability. Mentor junior engineers and participate in on-call rotations to ensure system stability. Ideal candidates have 8+ years of backend or systems-level development experience with deep expertise in Go, distributed systems, secure systems design, and cloud-native infrastructure. Experience in secrets management, service mesh, and machine identity platforms is a plus, along with a passion for optimizing complex, mission-critical systems for performance and reliability at scale.

Skills

Go gRPC openAPI PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes Terraform AWS CI/CD TLS PKI CAs Linux Unix Git Python JavaScript Swagger Helm Ansible

What you'll do

Contribute to the design and implementation of a low-latency, high-throughput secrets engine for non-human identities.
Write highly concurrent, performance-critical code to handle millions of machine-to-machine authentication requests.
Define long-term technical roadmap for scalability and performance in managing privileged access.
Mentor junior engineers to advance their software development lifecycle expertise.
Participate in rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.

What we're looking for

8+ years of backend or systems-level development experience
Deep expertise in multi-platform Go and building high-performance, concurrent applications
Extensive experience designing or operating distributed systems and secure systems (authn/authz, encryption)
Expertise in distributed storage systems with replication, backup, restore, and data management
Direct experience in secrets management, service mesh, or machine identity platform design
Proven ability to optimize systems for performance, latency, and throughput in complex environments

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