Senior Software Engineer (Federal)

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 organisations to safely embrace this new era.

The Okta Identity Governance Team Okta Identity Governance (OIG) is Okta's Identity Governance and Administration solution, responsible for some of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how people request access, how approvers grant it, how entitlements are enforced, and how organisations prove to auditors that only the right people have the right access.

The Senior Software Engineer (Federal) Opportunity As a Senior Fullstack Engineer on the OIG (Federal) team, your mission is to adapt the OIG product to the needs of the government customers. In this role, you will actively design, build, and maintain both robust backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure across high-compliance security baselines.
• Support operations transitioning into disconnected, air-gapped, and top-secret defence environments.
• Maintain strict security controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring for classified networks.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure software deployments meet stringent governmental security standards.
• Proactively identify and prioritise tech debt; drive improvements in areas beyond feature work - CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes.
• Partner with Product and Design to understand and own the desired customer outcome, not just the technical deliverable.
• Actively invest in the growth of peer engineers, taking responsibility for raising the technical bar of the team as a whole.

Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen. Candidate must possess an active clearance or have the ability to obtain and maintain a high-level government security clearance (e.g., Secret / Top Secret / SCI) based on mission requirements.
• 5+ years in software engineering, shipping enterprise cloud software.
• Hands-on depth in coding at scale using: Java, Python, or TypeScript, plus API (REST, gRPC) and UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent).
• Experience with CI/CD (CircleCI or equivalent), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and a major cloud platform.
• Operates well beyond basic AI tool usage - understands how to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle, can evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment, and is able to establish practices and bring a team along.
• Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies - including the ability to make and defend architectural decisions with lasting org-wide impact.
• Solid understanding of web authentication and authorisation fundamentals - how auth flows work, and best practices for securing sensitive user data.

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

• Federal Infrastructure Expertise: Hands-on experience building, scaling, and troubleshooting infrastructure in restricted environments (e.g., FedRAMP Medium/High, DoD Impact Levels, or air-gapped systems).
• Network & Security Isolation: Solid understanding of air-gap architectures, strict access controls, zero-trust frameworks, and data diode/secure transfer mechanisms.
• Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) , access requests, certifications, entitlement management, separation of duties, or role modelling (Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Oracle, or in-house).
• Identity and Access Management more broadly: SSO, SCIM provisioning, directory integration, or privileged access.
• Work experience in a compliance context , SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP , including audit evidence validation.

Benefits:

• Health, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k).
• Flexible spending account.
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $165,000-$227,000 USD.