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Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.\nThis is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.\nSenior Software Engineer (TS/SCI)\nSecure Every Identity, from AI to Human\nIdentity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.\nThis is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.\nThe Okta Identity Governance Team\nOkta 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 organizations prove to auditors that only the right people have the right access.\nOIG is the leading contributor to Okta's new product bookings, and it runs inside some of the largest enterprises in the world - the kind of accounts where a single tenant carries hundreds of thousands of identities across thousands of applications.\nOIG currently supports high-compliance public sector workloads and plans to expand our footprint to support the most secure, highly classified environments in government.\nThe Senior Software Engineer (Federal) Opportunity\nAs a Senior Fullstack Engineer on the OIG (Federal) team, your mission is to adapt the OIG product to the needs of the government customers. \nIn this role, you will actively design, build, and maintain both robust backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems and a commitment to AI-native engineering as our standard. You will rethink backend design, validation, and delivery through AI-augmented workflows, ensuring our platform provides secure, interoperable, and scalable access-enforcing the principle of least privilege for every aspect of the product.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nArchitect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure across high-compliance security baselines.\nSupport operations transitioning into disconnected, air-gapped, and top-secret defense environments.\nMaintain strict security controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring for classified networks.\nCollaborate with other engineering teams to ensure software deployments meet stringent governmental security standards.\nProactively identify and prioritize tech debt; drive improvements in areas beyond feature work - CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes.\nPartner with Product and Design to understand and own the desired customer outcome, not just the technical deliverable.\nActively invest in the growth of peer engineers, taking responsibility for raising the technical bar of the team as a whole.\nWhat You'll Bring To The Role\n5+ years in software engineering, shipping enterprise cloud software\nHands-on depth in coding at scale using: Java, Python, or TypeScript, plus API (REST, gRPC) and UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent)\nExperience with CI/CD (CircleCI or equivalent), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and a major cloud platform\nOperates 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.\nProven 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.\nSolid understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals - how auth flows work, and best practices for securing sensitive user data. \nArchitectural expertise: Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies, including making decisions with lasting, org-wide impact.\nBackend proficiency: Deep expertise in building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software in Java or another type-safe language.\nFrontend flexibility: High proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript with true fullstack range, including the ability to ship robust frontends. \nSecurity Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly Compliance Expertise: Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6) \nAnd extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!\n 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).\n Network & Security Isolation: Solid understanding of air-gap architectures, strict access controls, zero-trust frameworks, and data diode/secure transfer mechanisms.\nIdentity Governance and Administration (IGA) - access requests, certifications, entitlement management, separation of duties, or role modeling (Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Oracle, or in-house)\nIdentity and Access Management more broadly: SSO, SCIM provisioning, directory integration, or privileged access\nWork experience in a compliance context - SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP - including audit evidence validation\nAdditional requirements:\nU.S. soil status - the employee must be on U.S. soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101\nU.S. Security Clearance status - the employee must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.\nP24520_3553571\nBelow is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us. \nThe annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:\n$147,000—$202,000 USD\nThe Okta Experience\nSupporting Your Well-Being \nDriving Social Impact \nDeveloping Talent and Fostering Connection + Community\nWe are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.\nOkta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.\nIf reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.\nNotice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. 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