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
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The Team The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team is building the future of identity for machines, services, and applications. We are seeking a world-class Staff Engineer to help us architect and build the high-performance core of our non-human identity platform
Your work, in close collaboration with our principal engineers and architects, will be the foundation of our strategy for managing privileged access in the modern enterprise. If you are a systems programmer who thrives on influencing the design of high-performance, concurrent, and resilient security software, this is the role for you
What you’ll be doing Contribute to Core Architecture: Partner with principal engineers and architects to design and implement a low-latency, high-throughput secrets engine for non-human identities Solve for Massive Scale: Write highly concurrent, performance-critical code capable of handling millions of machine-to-machine authentication and authorization requests Shape Technical Strategy: Play a key role in defining the long-term technical roadmap for scalability and performance, ensuring our platform can meet the demands of the largest enterprises Mentor and Elevate: As a senior engineer on the team, you will work with junior engineers to help them advance their SDLC expertise
On-Call: Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development team What you’ll bring to the role Required Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a heavy focus on backend or systems-level development Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience Core Technical Expertise: Deep, hands-on expertise in multi-platform Go development and building high-performance, concurrent applications Experience designing or operating distributed systems Experience with secure systems (authn/authz, encryption, TLS, token handling, PKI, CAs, diagnosing TLS issues) Deep expertise in distributed storage systems, with a focus on replication, backup, and r