Senior Software Engineer- Okta Identity Governance

Okta•Toronto, ON

6h•CA$136,000 - CA$187,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Okta's Identity Governance (OIG) organization is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team. This team is directly responsible for one of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how employees request, approve, and gain access to the resources they need. As a Senior Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved in development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale. You will involve the architecture and evolution of our product features — spanning the across different access governance personas — and work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design to deliver features that are secure, scalable, and delightful to use. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, leads with craft, and is energized by the challenge of building enterprise-grade software that millions of users depend on. This is a rare opportunity to join a team where your technical decisions will directly shape how thousands of enterprises manage access governance at scale, where the technical challenges are genuinely hard, and where the work you ship will be seen and felt by real users every day.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in a production environment
Experience in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale
Solid experience with one or more of: Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack
Practical experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment
Ability to produce clear technical designs and documentation, communicate trade-offs effectively, and build consensus with teammates
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate and reason about complex, multi-service systems
A track record of delivering features with high quality — including meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end test coverage
Good communication skills and a collaborative working style — comfortable working across engineering, product, and design

Nice To Haves

Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms
Familiarity with workflow engines or approval/routing systems
Experience working in multi-tenant SaaS environments serving enterprise customers
Practical experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Responsibilities

Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance
Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates to a high bar for engineering quality
Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work