Jobs at Okta

Lead Okta’s global GTM recruiting strategy across Sales, Customer Solutions, Customer First, Enablement, and Alliances. Manage and scale a multi-regional recruiting organization, advise executive stakeholders, oversee workforce planning and hiring targets, improve recruiting operations and candidate experience, and establish talent analytics, forecasting, and reporting. Drive AI-enabled recruiting innovation, employer branding, talent pipelines, and accountable delivery across the Americas, EMEA, and APJ.

Owns the end-to-end design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of secure, scalable access governance features. The role involves architecting distributed systems, building enterprise-grade software, resolving customer issues, and collaborating with product, QA, and site reliability teams. The engineer will influence technical direction across teams while delivering reliable, high-performance identity governance capabilities for enterprise customers.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for architecting, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring scalable Okta Identity Governance features. The role owns feature areas end to end, resolves customer issues, ensures reliability and security, and influences technical direction across engineering, product, QA, and site reliability teams. The engineer will design distributed systems supporting enterprise customers and millions of users.

Own the end-to-end design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of secure, scalable OIG software features. Architect distributed systems and collaborate with product, design, QA, and site reliability teams. Deliver reliable enterprise features, resolve customer issues, maintain high engineering standards, and influence technical decisions across teams.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring secure, scalable features for Okta’s enterprise identity governance platform. The role owns feature areas end to end, develops distributed systems and microservices, resolves customer issues, and partners with product, QA, and site reliability teams. Success requires technical leadership across teams, strong software quality practices, and expertise in reliability, scalability, security, and enterprise SaaS environments.

Lead people analytics solutions covering the employee lifecycle, including dashboards, reporting, predictive workforce models, statistical analysis, NLP, and generative AI use cases. Partner with People Team leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure data quality, governance, and executive-ready insights. Analyze hiring, attrition, engagement, performance, compensation, headcount, and organizational health data to support workforce planning and strategic decisions.

Leads technology strategic sourcing and procurement, including category strategy, supplier selection, contract negotiation, cost optimization, risk management, governance, and supplier performance. Manages complex sourcing initiatives across software, SaaS, infrastructure, telecom, IaaS, and AI categories; partners with senior Technology, Finance, Legal, Security, and Privacy stakeholders; supports M&A activity; and leads and develops a team of Category Managers.

Lead the architecture, development, and deployment of high-performance macOS security and identity software. Own features from conception through delivery, establish technical standards, mentor engineers, guide design reviews, improve CI/CD and automated testing, and partner with product and engineering leadership on technical roadmaps. The role also drives innovation in device security, AI-assisted development, and cross-platform identity capabilities.

Build and operate shared cloud infrastructure and backend services using Java, Redis, Docker, Terraform, and AWS. Design scalable, resilient systems; evaluate and roll out common frameworks; conduct code reviews; write tests; monitor and troubleshoot services; optimize performance; and mentor junior engineers. Collaborate with architects, QA, product, security, and operations teams while supporting high-scale, multi-tenant deployments.

Own enterprise productivity and endpoint platforms across Google Workspace, SaaS applications, and global Apple, Windows, and Linux fleets. Manage Jamf Pro, Intune, Munki, Santa, FleetDM, security standards, identity integrations, and infrastructure-as-code workflows. Automate administration, support Tier 3 escalations, maintain compliance, participate in on-call coverage, and partner with product and security teams as an internal customer-zero advocate. Requires strong endpoint engineering, scripting, SaaS administration, platform security, and stakeholder communication skills.

Designs and implements Okta Customer Identity Cloud solutions for enterprise customers. Leads requirements gathering, discovery workshops, architecture design, technical specifications, project planning, and delivery oversight. Advises customers and executives on IAM, cloud, security, authentication, authorization, and application integration strategies. Supports customer health checks and project reviews while translating business needs into secure, scalable identity solutions.

Leads cross-functional pricing operations initiatives from strategy through go-to-market launch and adoption. Establishes roadmaps, operating cadences, readiness criteria, and stakeholder communications; coordinates Pricing, Product, Marketing, Legal, Finance, GTM, Technology, and Data teams. Develops Salesforce CPQ and business-system requirements for quoting, billing, provisioning, revenue recognition, and reporting. Drives enablement, process automation, risk management, decision-making, and sustained operational improvements across the customer lifecycle.

Pre-sales technical consultant working with Corporate/New Business sales to demonstrate and align Okta identity solutions to customer needs. Deliver demos, run proofs-of-concept, answer technical questions, provide product feedback, support events, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. Act as SME for IAM topics and help build pipeline while managing territory and customer relationships.

Designs, builds, deploys, and maintains secure full-stack identity governance software for federal customers. Responsibilities include backend and frontend development, distributed systems architecture, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, audit readiness, and operations in disconnected or classified environments. The role also requires collaboration across engineering, product, and design; architectural leadership; AI-augmented software development; and mentoring peer engineers.

Partner with senior leadership for G&A FP&A: own budgeting, forecasting, and detailed financial models; perform budget vs. actual analysis; lead driver-based analysis and operational efficiency initiatives; collaborate on close activities and long-range planning; manage ad hoc strategic projects; and lead process and systems improvements to scale finance operations.

Lead the evolution of global recruiting operations, improve hiring efficiency, implement scalable processes, and enhance candidate experience while managing metrics and cross-functional partnerships.

Build and maintain full-stack Identity Governance software for federal customers. Architect scalable backend services, frontend interfaces, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and secure deployments across classified and air-gapped environments. Ensure audit readiness, security compliance, reliability, and least-privilege access. Partner with Product and Design, address technical debt, make organization-wide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while applying AI throughout the software development lifecycle.

Define the architectural vision and roadmap for Okta’s UI platform infrastructure. Build scalable shared libraries, frameworks, reusable components, and design patterns that enable globally accessible, world-ready applications. Lead architecture reviews, cross-functional technical alignment, and implementation of foundational platform components. Mentor senior engineers, establish engineering best practices, and ensure technical quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards across distributed feature teams.

Lead Okta’s global technical recruiting organization across the Americas, EMEA, and APJ. Develop talent acquisition strategy, manage recruiting leaders, advise C-level Product and Technology executives, and optimize technical hiring capacity, assessment standards, analytics, candidate experience, compensation strategy, and employer branding. Drive predictable hiring delivery for specialized engineering and product roles while building scalable, AI-enabled recruiting practices and maintaining high technical hiring standards.

Serve as a trusted technical advisor for key accounts using Auth0 and Okta. Design scalable customer identity architectures, build prototypes and demos, test REST APIs with Postman, troubleshoot integrations, and resolve complex developer and architectural issues. Lead technical workshops, create code samples and enablement materials, advocate for customer needs with product and engineering teams, and mentor TAM peers. The role requires deep expertise in OAuth, OIDC, APIs, web development, CIAM, and workforce identity.