Fullstack Staff Software Engineer - PAM

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

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 with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

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

Fullstack Staff Software Engineer - PAM

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.

You Will

• Leverage cutting-edge AI pair-programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products.

• Proven expertise leveraging AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC) while maintaining high code quality.

• 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

You Have

• 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 some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world

• A good understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data