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Staff Software Engineer

Okta
Toronto, CAN
Onsite
CAD 160,000–220,000.
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Software engineeringDistributed systems architectureMicroservicesEvent-driven architectureAPIsData modeling at scale

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Role overview

Staff Engineer on the OIG team developing, designing, and maintaining a product for enterprise customers at scale.

Works across access governance personas with engineering, product, and design to deliver secure, scalable features.

Responsibilities

  • Own feature areas from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring.
  • Build production-ready OIG features focused on correctness, reliability, and performance.
  • Deliver bug fixes and respond to customer-reported issues.
  • Write maintainable, well-tested code and uphold engineering quality.
  • Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering on scope and deployment.

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience and independent delivery of complex production features.
  • Track record architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems for enterprise customers.
  • Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale.
  • Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go, or an equivalent JVM/cloud-native backend language.
  • Experience designing for enterprise reliability, scalability, and security, including multi-tenancy, high availability, audit logging, and RBAC/ABAC.
  • Ability to influence technical alignment across teams; excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Preferred experience

  • Identity, access management, or governance products and platforms.
  • Workflow engines or approval/routing systems.
  • Enterprise SaaS platforms serving complex organizations.
  • AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure and modern observability tooling.

Compensation

  • Annual base salary range for candidates located in Canada is CAD 160,000–220,000.
  • Equity, bonus, and benefits may also be offered under applicable plans and policies.

Workplace

  • The description mentions an in-person onboarding experience; it does not establish the ongoing workplace arrangement.

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