Staff Software Engineer, Security

Okta Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bellevue, WA
Salary
$194,000–$267,000 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role pays more than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $170,000–$236,840 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $203k for comparable roles.

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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 105 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,000–$238,000 across 105 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Security

JOB TITLE: Staff Software Engineer, Security The Staff Software Engineer, Security joins the Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group to design and develop security solutions that harden infrastructure and frameworks. This role involves acting as a liaison between engineering, security, and product organizations to influence the security roadmap and evangelize best practices. You will research, implement, and own security-oriented features, perform cross-vertical code reviews, and mentor junior engineers. Key technical requirements include experience with Java, AWS, GCP, MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch. You must demonstrate expertise in Application Security, Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, and Secrets Management. Additionally, the role requires knowledge of Post-Quantum Cryptography solutions and securing production-grade agentic AI systems. You will solve complex problems to improve customer safety and privacy while maintaining high performance across mission-critical software.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 414 postings across 38 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Research, design, and own security-oriented frameworks and features to protect customers.
  • Act as a liaison between engineering, security, and product organizations to develop security roadmap requirements.
  • Evangelize security best practices across the engineering organization.
  • Participate in cross-vertical code reviews with a specific focus on security.
  • Break down complex problems into sub-tasks and prototype security initiatives using agile practices.
  • Coach and mentor junior engineers on the team.
  • Troubleshoot and fix production issues to ensure system reliability, security, and performance.

What we're looking for

  • Must be a U.S. person (citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or U.S. national).
  • Must be physically located on U.S. soil.
  • 8+ years of development experience designing and implementing software systems in Java (preferred).
  • 4+ years of work experience designing and implementing security solutions for applications and distributed systems (preferred).
  • Experience in Application Security, Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, and Secrets Management (preferred).
  • Experience with Cloud Service Providers (AWS/GCP), RDBMS (MySQL), Redis, and Elasticsearch (preferred).
  • Knowledge of Post-Quantum Cryptography and securing production-grade agentic AI systems (preferred).
  • U.S. citizen as defined in 42 U.S. Code § 9102.

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