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From the employer's careers site First seen 14 Nov 2026

Staff Software Engineer - Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Okta Bellevue, Washington Hybrid staff full-time

Salary

$180,000-$247,000 USD per year

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Description

Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Privileged Access Management (PAM) team. The successful candidate will work on designing, developing, and delivering cloud-based privileged access management solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Leverage AI pair-programmers and LLMs to accelerate the development of secure PAM products.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to design and develop cloud-based PAM solutions.
  • Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features using modern JavaScript and cloud-native backend technologies.
  • Lead technical design for key initiatives, focusing on quality, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Develop reusable UI components for a best-in-class no-code builder experience.
  • Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new features and common platform components.
  • Evaluate existing systems for future business needs.
  • Conduct thorough design and code reviews, ensuring scalability, redundancy, and multi-tenancy.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks.
  • Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
  • Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security, and operations engineers.

Requirements:

  • Proven expertise in leveraging AI development tools.
  • Extensive experience with cloud-based software security product development.
  • Strong technology skills in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging large cloud deployments.
  • Good understanding of computer science fundamentals.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
  • 9+ years of programming experience in a modern language like Go, Java, or C++.
  • Experience with modern frontend JavaScript frameworks.
  • 4+ years of experience with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database systems.
  • Demonstrated experience with REST and its fundamentals.
  • Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker.
  • Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary ($180,000-$247,000 USD).
  • Equity (where applicable).
  • Bonus.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k).
  • Flexible spending account.
  • Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).

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