Staff Software Engineer
Okta Inc
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This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $186,597–$246,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $216k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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 87 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $174,000–$239,000 across 87 roles with salary data.
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As a Staff Software Engineer on the OIG team, you will drive the architecture, design, and maintenance of products serving enterprise customers at scale. You will take end-to-end ownership of feature areas, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring to ensure high performance and reliability. The role involves building production-ready features across the OIG system while collaborating with product, QA, and site reliability teams. You will work with technologies including Java, Kotlin, Go, and other JVM or cloud-native languages within a microservices and event-driven architecture. Key responsibilities include managing complex data modeling, multi-tenancy, and RBAC/ABAC requirements. This role focuses on the critical domain of identity and access governance, solving technical challenges related to secure, scalable infrastructure for enterprise-grade software used by millions of users daily.
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