Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

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. Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure Tagline: Build the engine that builds Okta. 🚀 Your Mission: Define the Future of Developer Velocity at 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. 💻 What You'll Do (The Impact) As a Staff Engineer,