# Matt- Staff Software Engineer, Resiliency (Federal)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $194,000-$243,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Okta is seeking a Staff Back-End Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives and own the reliability of their expanding Identity as a Service platform.

The engineer will develop microservices, build innovative frameworks, and optimize the cloud-native environment. They will champion reliability during design phases and collaborate across teams to address technical gaps.

Key responsibilities include:

- Partnering with engineering teams to design, develop, and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects

- Designing and implementing robust backend frameworks, tools, microservices, and library components

- Championing innovative, scalable, and resilient solutions across the engineering organization

- Exploring and integrating modern AI-driven developer tooling, automated diagnostics, and predictive monitoring capabilities

- Conducting rigorous design and code reviews

- Participating in and leading incident Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes

- Collaborating closely with Architects, QA, Product Owners, Engineering Services, and Tech Ops

- Mentoring new engineering hires and interns

The ideal candidate will have:

- 8+ years of experience as a software developer with deep, expert-level knowledge of Java (Golang experience is a strong plus)

- Demonstrated history of architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging global cloud software

- Proven track record of addressing scaling, redundancy, and performance bottlenecks in high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS environments

- Practical experience or strong interest in leveraging generative AI utilities and developer assistance tools

- Outstanding communication and leadership skills

- Previous experience in a dedicated platform reliability, resilience, or core infrastructure role is highly valued

The annual base salary range for this position is $194,000-$243,000 USD. Okta offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Golang
- cloud infrastructure
- microservices
- container ecosystems
- AI-driven developer tooling
- automated diagnostics
- predictive monitoring

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes

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