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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 82 days Okta's roles stay open a median of 103 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Okta's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Okta
- high 320 stale, 35 reposted of 320 open
- Hiring momentum
- 109 roles opened in the last 90 days ↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-11-14
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Okta's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Okta.
About this role
As a Staff Engineer on the Identity Administration team at Okta, you will be responsible for the development, design, and maintenance of critical workflows related to enterprise identity management. Your role will involve taking ownership of feature areas, ensuring high-quality production-ready features, and collaborating with various teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions. You will also be tasked with quickly addressing bugs and customer-reported issues while maintaining high engineering standards.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Okta as an employer.
What you need
- 8 to 13 years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang
- Deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing
- Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens
- Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
- In-depth knowledge in distributed systems / microservices architectures
- Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis)
Nice to have
- Experience with Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog for monitoring and troubleshooting production issues
- Familiarity with Kafka or SQS for handling cross-org asynchronous events
- Basic familiarity with React/JavaScript to help integrate backend services
- Understanding of how to build and deploy services across isolated infrastructure units
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role involves significant ownership and responsibility
- Work is critical and visible, impacting many users
- Hybrid work model indicated, but specifics are not detailed
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Listed by Okta on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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