Senior Software Engineer
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 6 October 2026.
About the role
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Title of Job: Sr. Software Engineer
We are looking for a Senior Software engineer who is passionate about writing the tools to integrate and support to build large-scale, high-demand software in a fast-paced agile environment. You will share our passion for test-driven development, continuous integration and automation to produce frequent high-quality releases.
Our engineering team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to be part of a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.
You will get an opportunity to work in scaling our infrastructure to the next generation. Our scale is already huge in running tens of thousands of tests for every commit automatically. This comes with challenges in speed by reducing compute time from days to a few minutes.
Responsibilities:
- You will be part of the team that builds, maintains, and improves our highly-automated build, release and testing infrastructure.
- Scripting, tools-building, and automation are paramount to Okta Engineering; everybody automates. You will be creating and coding tools for internal use to support continuous delivery.
- Team up with Development, QA and Ops to continuously innovate and enhance our build and automation infrastructure
- Collaborate with peers and stake-holders to create new tools/process/technology. We use the latest technology from AWS and you can experiment, recommend, and implement new technologies in our build and CI system.
- Work with internal customers to roll-out projects and process, monitor adoption, collect feedback, and fine-tune the project to respond to internal customers’ needs.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience with one or more programming languages including Python, Go, Java, Javascript
- Good understanding of application development, micro services architecture and successful elements of a multi-service ecosystem
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional work towards task completion.
- Understanding of Agile methodologies is a plus.
- Past experience working on AWS or K8S
- Good understanding of virtualization, dynamic provisioning, Docker, AWS and Linux
- Experience in Kubernetes is a plus
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent.
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The Okta Experience
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Agile · Docker · Linux
Rare in Okta's other 210 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
In most of Okta's ads
Machine Learning
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
60% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Okta's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Okta's other open postings on this site.
The team: Tech Ops HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 14 open in Tech Ops. 7 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in February: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Kubernetes (14 of 14), Machine Learning (14 of 14), Okta (14 of 14), AWS (13 of 14), Golang (12 of 14), Python (12 of 14), Terraform (12 of 14)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer - SRE posted Oct 13
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer - EPG posted Oct 12
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer posted Oct 6
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer (K8s, Terraform, Python) posted Oct 6
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Oct 1
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer posted Sep 30
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes posted Aug 27
- Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Auth0) posted Aug 26
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Jun 18
- Principal Site Reliability Engineer posted Jun 15
- Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Federal) posted May 28
- Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) posted May 5
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Splunk posted Feb 26
From the team and dates on Okta's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted 5 times since 7 March 2026: a posting for this role in Bengaluru, India was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 16 October 2026 – open
- 9 October 2026 – closed 18 October 2026
- 6 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 3 October 2026 – closed 16 October 2026
- 3 October 2026 – open
- 3 June 2026 – closed 15 June 2026
- 3 June 2026 – closed 29 July 2026
- 3 April 2026 – closed 23 May 2026
- 7 March 2026 – open
Salary context
317 other open postings titled Senior Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 220,000 a year.
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