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Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Okta
San Francisco, California Full Time USD 194,000 - 267,000 p.a. Sep 17, 2026

About the Job

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate...

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, ...

Required Skills & Abilities

Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth
Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
8+ yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A superior understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, memory management.
3+ yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing databases and fine tuning queries is a plus.
3+ yrs experience developing, operating, optimizing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes. Experience with AWS EKS is a plus, so is experience with GCP.
Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals. Knowledge of gRPC is a plus.
Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Tomcat, AWS, Redis, and Docker
Knowledge of network security, authentication and authorization
Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
Experience with enterprise SaaS as a good-to-have
Familiarity with Agile software development process
This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.""As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire."

 
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.   
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:
$194,000—$267,000 USD
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Qualifications

Education: Bachelor

Work Authorization

Citizen, Permanent Resident

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