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.
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 are looking for a software engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the core building blocks of the product.
In this role you will:
- Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
- Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
- Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
- Delight our customers by providing world class UX using our React-based design system
- Design and build APIs that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
- Work on backend components written in Go and frontend components written in React.
You might be a good fit if you:
- Have 3-5 years of software development experience with a background in Golang or similar programming languages.
- Proficient in React or similar front-end UI stacks.
- Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
- have the ability to complete a feature end to end from designing database models to backend APIs and frontend UI components.
- Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
- Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design.
- Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.
- Have a passion and interest to work on systems that are highly reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
- Bring an optimistic attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.
- Are comfortable working on a fully-distributed team.
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, 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/can.
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Skills Required
- 3-5 years of software development experience
- Professional experience with Go or similar programming languages
- Proficiency with React or similar frontend UI technologies
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies
- Ability to complete features end to end, including database models, backend APIs, and frontend UI components
- Experience working with a cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience designing or working with distributed systems
- Understanding of reliability, availability, and performance implications in system design
- Ability to work collaboratively with end-to-end ownership
- Ability to work effectively on a fully distributed team
Okta Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Okta and has not been reviewed or approved by Okta.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, mental-health support, and income protection, complemented by preventive care options and wellness resources. These elements indicate robust coverage for both routine needs and more complex situations.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and fertility and family‑building benefits. Caregiving resources and flexible arrangements help employees navigate family responsibilities.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, separate sick time, paid holidays, and a company Wellbeing Week provide multiple avenues for time away. This breadth supports rest, recovery, and work‑life balance.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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