Senior Software Engineer - Identity Threat Protection

Senior Software Engineer - Identity Threat Protection

Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

About The Okta Identity Threat Protection
Identity Threat Protection (ITP) with Okta AI goes beyond traditional login security to provide real‑time protection against evolving threats. By seamlessly integrating with your existing security infrastructure, ITP analyzes user behavior and system data to identify and mitigate risks proactively. We’re a team of full‑stack engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers redefining cloud authentication. Our goal is to build a next‑gen security platform that continuously evaluates threats and constructs a comprehensive risk graph.

ITP is at the forefront of trust and security by prioritizing risk in authentication and authorization decisions.

The Senior Software Engineer Opportunity
Okta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its ITP engineering team. This is an opportunity to solve critical security problems. The ideal candidate has experience building, launching, and supporting security products  will share our passion and pride in elegant solutions and will join an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for scale, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative process to build high‑quality enterprise software.

You will demonstrate great aptitude for software engineering excellence and aren’t afraid to be a player‑coach. Our team is fast, innovative, and flexible, with agile release cycles and individual ownership.

• Own and manage the design, development, delivery, and supportability of cloud‑native security products – from concept design to final implementation.
• Collaborate across groups and communicate effectively with engineering, product management, design, support, and documentation roles.
• Commit to high programming standards by reviewing code and writing unit and functional tests.
• Work with remote teams while ensuring quality, agility, and velocity.
• Participate in rotations to expeditiously unblock customers and make them successful.

• 3+ years of experience building Java‑based web applications.
• Good understanding of design patterns, scalability patterns, security engineering, and object‑oriented principles.
• Experience working in fast‑paced software development teams leveraging continuous integration and deployment practices.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across functional teams.

• Experience building anomaly detection systems or risk systems is a huge plus.
• Experience in cloud security, identity, and/or authentication protocols.
• Experience with UI technologies such as Angular, React
  
  JS, Backbone, and Vue.

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between $130,000 — $194,000 CAD.

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live.

Find your place at Okta today!

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