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 PAM Team

Ever wonder how large organisations make sure the right people can access their most critical systems? That's the problem the Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team solves. Our solution controls who can reach sensitive servers, databases and cloud resources and grants access only when it's needed. It is the security layer between people (and non-human-identities) and the systems they need to do their jobs.

The Staff Backend Engineer Opportunity

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 restore, and data management. (Postgres, etc.)

Direct experience designing, building, or contributing to a secrets management, service mesh, or machine identity platform

Expert-level at ergonomic API design (gRPC/openAPI), and building for reliability at scale

Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

Experience at a leading Cybersecurity or Infrastructure-as-Code company

Contributions to open-source projects in the identity, security, or infrastructure space

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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 PAM Team

Ever wonder how large organisations make sure the right people can access their most critical systems? That's the problem the Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team solves. Our solution controls who can reach sensitive servers, databases and cloud resources and grants access only when it's needed. It is the security layer between people (and non-human-identities) and the systems they need to do their jobs.

The Staff Backend Engineer Opportunity

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 restore, and data management. (Postgres, etc.)

Direct experience designing, building, or contributing to a secrets management, service mesh, or machine identity platform

Expert-level at ergonomic API design (gRPC/openAPI), and building for reliability at scale

Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

Experience at a leading Cybersecurity or Infrastructure-as-Code company

Contributions to open-source projects in the identity, security, or infrastructure space

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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 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 restore, and data management. (Postgres, etc.)
• Direct experience designing, building, or contributing to a secrets management, service mesh, or machine identity platform
• Expert-level at ergonomic API design (gRPC/openAPI), and building for reliability at scale
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure
• Key Attributes:
• You are driven by the challenge of optimizing systems for performance, latency, and throughput, with a proven ability to diagnose complex, multi-system issues
• You have a proven track record of making significant contributions to the architecture of complex, mission-critical systems
• You thrive in an environment where you can focus on deep technical problems
• Bonus Points:
• Experience at a leading Cybersecurity or Infrastructure-as-Code company
• Contributions to open-source projects in the identity, security, or infrastructure space

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

• Deep expertise in backend systems engineering
• Experience building and scaling beyond standard three-tier monolithic architectures, with a focus on modern distributed systems
• Have worked on projects with complex, established systems
• Possess significant, hands-on experience in a Linux/Unix environment

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