or apply directly on Okta's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Okta's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Okta's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Okta
- high 314 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
- 2026-10-23
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 Principal Software Engineer at Okta, you will be responsible for designing, scaling, and governing enterprise integration solutions using AWS cloud services and modern iPaaS platforms. Your role involves driving architecture for self-service cloud automations, building high-throughput integration flows, and mentoring engineers while ensuring best practices in software engineering and security are followed. You will collaborate with various teams to enhance platform capabilities and automate complex workflows at scale.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- 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
- 12+ years of software engineering experience in Java and Python
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Next.js, TypeScript)
- Deep expertise with AWS and event-driven architectures alongside enterprise iPaaS platforms
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices: IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD release automation, API contract design (REST/GraphQL), and unit/integration testing standards
- Experience in platform reliability, central logging, error recovery, operational observability, and self-service governance frameworks
- Demonstrated success in building internal platform tools, self-service capabilities, or paved paths that empower and accelerate engineering teams across an enterprise
Worth weighing
- No specific salary or benefits information provided
- Role emphasizes both hands-on engineering and strategic architecture, which may require balancing between coding and high-level design responsibilities
- The position involves mentoring and influencing engineering culture, which may be challenging in a diverse team environment
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Listed by Okta on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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