Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

Tagline: Build the engine that builds Okta.

Are you a software engineer who believes that an exceptional developer platform is the key to unlocking engineering-wide innovation? Are you obsessed with building the high-leverage tools, services, and automated infrastructure that make building, testing, and deploying software a seamless experience?

Okta's Platform & Infrastructure team is the central nervous system for all of Okta Engineering. We build and own the entire internal developer platform—the CI/CD pipelines, the build-and-test orchestration, and the multi-cloud infrastructure that powers it all.

This isn't just about maintaining systems. It's about building a scalable, resilient, and blazing-fast "paved road" that empowers hundreds of engineers to ship high-quality code, multiple times a day.

Our scale is immense. We run tens of thousands of automated tests for every single commit . As Okta grows, this CI/CD workload presents a monumental engineering challenge.

Your primary goal will be to attack this problem head-on. You will be a key builder in our quest to shrink massive, distributed compute jobs from hours or days down to just minutes . This role requires deep systems thinking, clever orchestration, and a passion for wringing every last drop of performance out of the infrastructure.

As a Staff Engineer, you are a technical leader, architect, and hands-on builder. You will:

Architect & Build: Design, code, and operate the next generation of our CI/CD platform, primarily using Go (Golang) and Python .

Master Kubernetes: Leverage your deep Kubernetes (K8s) expertise to orchestrate our complex and ephemeral build, test, and deployment workflows at massive scale.

Own the Multi-Cloud: Build services and automation that abstract and manage workloads extensively across AWS, GCP, and Azure , optimizing for cost, speed, and reliability.

Build a Platform, Not Just Tools: Create robust, self-service, and elegant internal products for our engineers. You'll treat our internal developers as your first-class customers.

Drive Innovation: You will not just use our build and CI systems, you will be responsible for building and scaling them.

Mentor & Lead: Collaborate with peers, mentor other engineers, and set the technical direction for major platform initiatives.

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