Staff Software Engineer (Integration Network, AI)

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada; hybrid

Salary: CAD 164,000–225,500 annual base salary for candidates located in Canada, plus equity where applicable, bonus, and benefits.

Company

Okta builds identity and access infrastructure that helps organizations securely connect people, applications, and AI systems.

What you will do

• Lead discovery, technical scoping, architecture design, phased delivery planning, and estimation for ambiguous requirements.
• Design and evolve OIN APIs, data models, integration frameworks, and security posture with backward compatibility and long-term extensibility.
• Drive technical decisions across multi-team dependencies and align engineering, product, architecture, and design stakeholders.
• Modernize a large, long-lived production system without disrupting dependent customers and integrations.
• Maintain high standards for security, testing, code quality, vulnerability remediation, observability, and production reliability.
• Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and champion AI-assisted engineering practices across design, development, review, and testing.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship.
• Deep proficiency in Java or a comparable strongly typed backend language and framework, with experience modernizing large codebases safely.
• Experience designing, building, and operating complex large-scale distributed systems in AWS, GCP, or Azure, including caching, asynchronous processing, and large-scale data migrations.
• Strong experience with identity and access protocols including OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SAML, and/or SCIM.
• Experience designing and evolving APIs and integration frameworks for external developers or partners, including backward compatibility, versioning, and developer experience.
• Ability to drive technical direction across ambiguous multi-team dependencies and align stakeholders around an actionable plan.
• Security- and compliance-aware approach to systems where correctness failures can affect customers or compliance.
• Thoughtful use of AI tools across code generation, review, testing, and team adoption.
• Excellent written communication and ability to structure ambiguous problems using first principles.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating large specialized enterprise systems with strict compliance or data-handling requirements.
• Experience with self-service developer platforms or partner/ISV ecosystems.
• Front-end proficiency with React or a similar technology.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with an immersive in-person onboarding experience.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance; RRSP matching; healthcare spending; and telemedicine.
• Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave, in accordance with applicable plans and policies.
• Equity where applicable, bonus, and access to Okta's well-being, social impact, talent development, and community programs.
• Collaborative global community spanning more than 20 offices.

Hiring process

• Reasonable accommodation is available for application, interview, and onboarding activities through Okta's accommodation request form.