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Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their customers' experiences. With over 14,000 customers, 7000+ app integrations, and well over 200 million registered users, we are only getting started.

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale.

We"re looking for a staff-level fullstack engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who"re proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative, and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership, we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based privileged access management solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features using modern JavaScript and cloud-native backend technologies.
• Lead technical design for key initiatives, driving quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Build reusable and performant UI components for a best-in-class no-code builder experience.
• Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new features and common platform components.
• Evaluate existing systems to evolve them for serving in specialized circumstances to support Okta's future business needs.
• Conduct thorough design and code reviews, ensuring that proposed solutions account for scalability, redundancy, and multi-tenancy. Uphold high programming standards by consistently writing comprehensive unit and functional tests.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks the team owns.
• Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers.

Qualifications

• Immense passion for doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth.
• Extensive experience with cloud based software security product development.
• Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging large-scale cloud deployments in the enterprise.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
• 9+ years of programming experience in a modern language (Go, Java, or C++; Go preferred), especially for backend services.
• Good knowledge of modern frontend JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, etc.).
• 4+ years experience with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational databases; data design and query optimization is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience with REST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals.
• Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker.
• Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization.
• Follows best software engineering principles and Agile process.
• Previous experience at security firms is a plus.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office or our Chicago office during the first week of employment.

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The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $188,000 — $282,000 USD

Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. Okta offers equity (where applicable) and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave). To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit:

The annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington is between: $168,000 — $227,000 USD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee

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• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees. Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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