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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 days Okta's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Okta's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Okta
- low 0 stale, 35 reposted of 320 open
- Hiring momentum
- 541 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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 Software Engineer on the Identity Administration team at Okta, you will develop, design, and maintain critical features for enterprise identity management. Your role involves end-to-end ownership of feature areas, ensuring high-quality, production-ready code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions. You will also address customer-reported issues and contribute to the overall evolution of the product.
- 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
- 7+ 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 for service-to-service communication
- 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 responsibility and ownership
- Focus on enterprise-grade software with millions of users
- Technical challenges described as genuinely hard
Summarised from Okta's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Okta on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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