Description
Okta Identity Governance (OIG) organisation is looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team , OIG is Okta’s Identity Governance and Administration solution that is directly responsible for one of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how employees request, approve, and gain access to the resources they need.
As a Principal Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved in the development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale. You will work on the architecture and evolution of our product features , spanning across different access governance personas , and collaborate across engineering, product, and design to deliver features that are secure, scalable, and delightful to use.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas , from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
- Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance
- Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates to a high bar for engineering quality
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or staff-level technical leadership role
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments serving enterprise customers
- Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale
- Strong proficiency in one or more of: Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority , driving technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Experience designing systems that meet enterprise reliability, scalability, and security requirements (think: multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, RBAC/ABAC)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical topics accessible to both engineers and non-engineers
Preferred Skills
- Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms
- Familiarity with workflow engines or approval/routing systems (e.g., finite state machines, BPM-style systems)
- Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms serving large, complex customer organisations
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern observability tooling
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)