Staff Software Engineer, Platform & InfrastructureActive

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • + years of experience in Software Engineering
  • Coding Skills: You are a strong software engineer first, with proven experience building and maintaining complex systems in Go (Golang) and/or Python .
  • Kubernetes is a Must: You have deep, practical experience building, running, and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes. You understand pods, operators, scheduling, and networking inside and out.
  • CI/CD as a Platform: You have architected, built, and/or significantly scaled CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Tekton, ArgoCD) as a platform for other engineers, not just as an end-user.