Staff Software Engineer- Salesforce

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.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Technology, Data, & Intelligence Team is on a mission to simplify and secure internal operations through automation, analysis, and scale. Our Productivity Engineering team is responsible for developing internal tooling, infrastructure and services that empower Okta employees to work as effectively as possible.

We work across engineering, data science, security, and internal business teams to deliver automation-powered services that integrate across a wide array of SAAS apps and internally developed infrastructure to Okta. A growing focus for our team has been an investment of cycles into AI agentic platforms, workflow orchestration, and data analytic dashboarding. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving tough problems and building with purpose.

Reporting to the Director, Business Technology Sales & Partners, this role will help scale our business solutions while providing an extra focus on security, enabling Okta to be the most efficient, scalable, and reliable company. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing customizations, extensions, configurations, and integrations required to meet the company’s strategic business objectives.

What You’ll Be Doing : Core competencies expected of a Staff Engineer is to operate with a high degree of autonomy, technical leadership, and project ownership.

Architectural Ownership and Design : You need to be a technical leader. The role is responsible for translating business needs into well-architected solutions and designing solid, scalable, and secure architectures.

Project and Delivery Leadership : The expectation for this role to act as a Team Lead and own deliverables from discovery to deployment. This demonstrates a need for leadership in execution, ensuring the team meets its commitments while adhering to best practices.

Mentorship and Technical Bar-Setting : You are expected to Mentor other engineers and to Define & set the bar high for coding standards.

Cross-Functional Influence : You must effectively communicate and collaborate across different functions.

Future-Forward Technical Skills : We aim to be an AI First and AI native department. It explicitly values the ability to build Agents using Agentforce, leverage open source libraries to build agents, and proficiency with AI workflow tools.

Strategic Influence on Technology Roadmap : You should have the ability to proactively identify opportunities and influence the future technical and business roadmap.

Operating in Ambiguity : You are often expected to take broad, ambiguous business problems and distill them into concrete, solvable technical projects.

What You’ll Bring To The Role :

• 4+ years of Software development experience with experience in Java or Python or equivalent
• 5+ years’ hands-on Salesforce development with solid knowledge of Apex, Process Automation, and LWC
• Experience in Architecture, Design & implementation of various high-complexity projects / programs for Sales Cloud, CPQ, Service Cloud Console, etc.
• Experience working with CI / CD, SfDx, Jenkins or equivalent

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between $170,000—$254,000 USD.

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee :

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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