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At a glance
Okta is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - Okta Identity Governance in San Francisco, CA. It is a full-time role in Software & IT, asking for at least 8 years of experience. The advertised pay is $194,000–$267,000 a year. The description mentions Microservices, Data modelling, Java, Kotlin, AWS and Google Cloud. Okta has 99 other openings in the US, 65 of them in San Francisco, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 682 Software & IT openings in San Francisco, CA today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $233,000 a year at the midpoint.
MicroservicesData modellingJavaKotlinAWSGoogle CloudAzureMachine learning
How the pay compares
Okta advertises $194,000 to $267,000 a year, a midpoint of $230,500 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 62% of the 1,245 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $214,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
Skills in this advert
How often each skill named in this advert appears across the 4,388 software & IT jobs we list today. AWS is the most widely requested (21% of jobs), while Data modelling is the least common (2%). Widely requested skills are what employers expect as a baseline; rarer ones show what is special about this job.
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Before you apply
- Location. Based in San Francisco, CA.
- Experience. The advert asks for at least 8 years.
- Resume. The advert's own words include Microservices, Data modelling and Java. Use them wherever they are true for you.
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About hiring at Okta
Okta has 100 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 18 states. Most are in software & IT (32), sales & BD (27) and data & AI (11). The biggest locations are San Francisco, CA (66), Bellevue, WA (37) and Chicago, IL (32). 16% of them are remote, 3% are open to entry-level candidates and 100% show pay. We collect Okta's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Greenhouse), never from job boards or agencies.
From Okta's advert
As a Staff Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved into development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale.
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