# Staff Software Engineer, Security

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $174,000-$239,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Okta's Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is seeking an experienced software security engineer to design and develop security solutions. As a Staff Software Engineer, Security, you will focus on engineering security and privacy aspects of systems used across Okta's services, working on a weekly release cadence. You will act as a liaison between the Security and engineering organisations to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap and direction.

Responsibilities:

- Develop innovative requirements for the security roadmap with engineering, security, and product organisations.

- Evangelise security best practices across the engineering organisation.

- Research, design, implement, and own security-oriented frameworks and features to protect Okta's customers.

- Participate in cross-vertical code reviews with an emphasis on security.

- Break down complex problems into sub-tasks, prototyping rapidly and iteratively contributing to security initiatives using agile practices.

- Coach and mentor junior engineers in the team.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of development experience in designing and implementing software systems in Java.

- 4+ years of work experience in designing and implementing security solutions for applications and distributed systems.

- Excellent understanding of Application Security, Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, and Secrets Management.

- Experience with Cloud Service Providers such as AWS and GCP.

- Experience with RDBMS like MySQL, and data stores such as Redis and Elasticsearch.

- Strong leadership skills in security and engineering, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Strategic problem-solving abilities to assist in planning, scoping, and refining requirements of large and complex initiatives.

Preferred qualifications:

- Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) solutions, including quantum-resistant algorithms and cryptographic migration strategies.

- Experience with designing, developing, and securing production-grade agentic AI systems.

- Troubleshooting and fixing production issues to ensure reliability, security, and performance.

Benefits:

- Health, dental, and vision insurance.

- 401(k).

- Flexible spending account.

- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).

Salary range:

- $174,000-$239,000 USD for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington.

- $194,000-$267,000 USD for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Application Security
- Cryptography
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Certificates and Secrets Management
- Cloud Service Providers (AWS, GCP)
- RDBMS (MySQL)
- Redis
- Elasticsearch

### Nice to have
- Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
- Agentic AI systems
- Troubleshooting and fixing production issues

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