Staff Software Engineer
Okta
CA$160,000 - CA$220,000 / year
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Description
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.
Opportunity
As a Staff Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved into development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale. You will involve the architecture and evolution of our product features — spanning the across different access governance personas — and work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design to deliver features that are secure, scalable, and delightful to use.
This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, leads with craft, and is energized by the challenge of building enterprise-grade software that millions of users depend on.
This is a rare opportunity to join a team where your technical decisions will directly shape how thousands of enterprises manage access governance at scale, where the technical challenges are genuinely hard, and where the work you ship will be seen and felt by real users every day.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
- Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance
- Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates to a high bar for engineering quality
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in a production environment
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments serving enterprise customers
- Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale
- Strong proficiency in one or more of: Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority — driving technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Experience designing systems that meet enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements (think: multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, RBAC/ABAC)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical topics accessible to both engineers and non-engineers
Preferred if you have experience in any of the following!
- Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms
- Familiarity with workflow engines or approval/routing systems (e.g., finite state machines, BPM-style systems)
- Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms serving large, complex customer organizations
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern observability tooling
Education
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent
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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.
The Okta Experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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Benefits
- vision insurance
- paid time off
- stock options
- parental leave
About this role
Okta's Identity Governance team is seeking a Staff Engineer to own the full lifecycle of feature development—from architecture through production monitoring—on systems that thousands of enterprises rely on daily. You'll work on genuinely hard technical challenges in access governance, designing and building distributed, multi-tenant systems that demand high reliability and security. This role sits at the intersection of complex system design and real user impact, requiring someone who can think in systems, maintain high engineering standards, and ship production-ready code consistently.
The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of backend engineering experience with a proven track record shipping large-scale distributed systems for enterprise customers. You should have deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, and data modeling at scale, with strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar JVM/cloud-native languages. Beyond technical depth, you'll need the ability to influence across teams without formal authority, communicate complex topics clearly to both engineers and non-engineers, and design systems that meet enterprise requirements around multi-tenancy, high availability, and security. Experience in identity and access management, workflow engines, or enterprise SaaS is valued but not required.
This is a full-time, in-office role in Toronto with a base salary of $160,000–$220,000 CAD, plus equity, bonus, and benefits including health coverage, RRSP matching, and paid leave. Okta emphasizes in-person collaboration from day one, with onboarding designed to connect you to the mission and team immediately.
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