Staff Software Engineer (OIN)

• As a Staff Software Engineer on the OIN team, you’ll be a technical leader for a platform a very large share of Okta’s customers depend on every day
• You’ll independently own complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end — from technical scoping through design, delivery, and production operation — partnering closely with product, architecture, and design to help figure out what “right” looks like as much as building it
• You’ll also be expected to raise the technical bar for the engineers around you, not just deliver your own code
• We’re looking for self-motivated engineers who think from first principles, take pride in high-quality software, and are genuinely kind and collaborative to work with
• Lead discovery and technical scoping for new requirements, turning ambiguous product asks into a concrete architecture, phased delivery plans, and credible estimates, in close partnership with product, architecture, and design
• Design and evolve the APIs, data models, and security posture that OIN’s integrations depend on, with an eye toward backward compatibility and long-term extensibility
• Drive technical decisions across ambiguous, multi-team dependencies, aligning stakeholders across engineering, product, and other parts of the business when the “right answer” isn’t obvious yet
• Modernize and evolve a large, long-lived production system incrementally without disrupting the customers and integrations that depend on it every day
• Maintain a high bar for security, testing, and code quality, including vulnerability remediation and threat-aware design, while keeping a real sense of urgency on customer-impacting work
• Own the production health of the systems you build by writing root-cause analyses when things break, driving follow-through on the fixes, and building the observability that prevents repeat incidents
• Champion AI-native engineering practices by using AI coding assistants and AI-augmented workflows as a core part of how you design, build, review, and ship software, and helping the team adopt them well
• Mentor and raise the technical bar for the engineers around you, and represent the team’s technical point of view in cross-functional forums

Benefits

• Work from home opportunities
• Health + Wellness
• Financial Benefits
• Pay + Incentives
• Time Off
• Everyday Living
• Resources- A security- and compliance-aware mindset — comfortable working on systems where correctness failures have real customer or compliance consequences, not just availability ones
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a demonstrated history of technical leadership and mentorship
• Excellent written communication — you bring structure to ambiguous problems and drive them to closure using first principles, in writing that others can act on without you in the room
• Experience designing and evolving APIs and integration frameworks that external developers or partners build on, not just internal consumers. You think about backward compatibility, versioning, and developer experience as first-class concerns
• Applies AI tools thoughtfully across the development lifecycle, from code generation to review to testing, and can help a team adopt them well, not just use them personally
• Deep proficiency in Java (our primary backend language) or a comparable strongly-typed backend language/framework, with the judgment to know when and how to modernize a large, long-lived codebase without disrupting the customers depending on it
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating complex, large-scale distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including caching, asynchronous processing, and data migrations at scale
• Real depth in identity and access protocols (OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SAML, and/or SCIM) and the security instincts that come from having built systems that other companies’ software authenticates against
• Comfortable driving technical direction across ambiguous, multi-team dependencies. You can align product, architecture, and other engineering teams around a plan when the “right answer” isn’t obvious yet
• Experience integrating with large, specialized third-party enterprise systems that carry their own strict compliance or data-handling requirements
• Experience running or contributing to a self-serve developer platform or partner/ISV ecosystem
• Front-end proficiency (React or similar) is a big positive
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience