Okta · San Francisco, United States
Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer (Federal) where you will adapt our OIG product to meet the needs of government customers. You will design, build, and maintain both backend services and frontend interfaces, with a focus on AI-native engineering. This role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and strict security controls. You will collaborate with other engineering teams, prioritize tech debt, and invest in the growth of your peers. Enjoy benefits such as work from home opportunities, health and wellness support, financial benefits, and time off.
- Experience with CI/CD (CircleCI or equivalent), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and a major cloud platform
- Architectural expertise: Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies, including making decisions with lasting, org-wide impact
- Operates well beyond basic AI tool usage - understands how to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle, can evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment, and is able to establish practices and bring a team along
- 5+ years in software engineering, shipping enterprise cloud software
- Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies - including the ability to make and defend architectural decisions with lasting org-wide impact
- Solid understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals - how auth flows work, and best practices for securing sensitive user data
- Backend proficiency: Deep expertise in building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software in Java or another type-safe language
- Frontend flexibility: High proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript with true fullstack range, including the ability to ship robust frontends
- Hands-on depth in coding at scale using: Java, Python, or TypeScript, plus API (REST, gRPC) and UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent)
- Federal Infrastructure Expertise: Hands-on experience building, scaling, and troubleshooting infrastructure in restricted environments (e.g., FedRAMP Medium/High, DoD Impact Levels, or air-gapped systems)
- Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) — access requests, certifications, entitlement management, separation of duties, or role modeling (Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Oracle, or in-house)
- Network & Security Isolation: Solid understanding of air-gap architectures, strict access controls, zero-trust frameworks, and data diode/secure transfer mechanisms
- Identity and Access Management more broadly: SSO, SCIM provisioning, directory integration, or privileged access
- Work experience in a compliance context — SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP — including audit evidence validation
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