Principal Engineer at Okta

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our global Automation Engineering team to design, scale, and govern our enterprise integration substrate using AWS cloud services and modern iPaaS platforms.

About Okta

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.

Key Responsibilities

Drive the architecture and strategy for self-service cloud automations, creating paved paths that enable builders across Okta to connect enterprise systems seamlessly.
Design, build, and deploy high-throughput event-driven integration flows, API gateways, and async orchestration workflows using AWS serverless architectures and iPaaS platforms.
Build reusable frameworks, developer SDKs, self-service primitives, and integration templates to streamline automation delivery.
Serve as a technical expert on AWS cloud services and modern iPaaS tooling, driving scalable architecture, reliability, and builder enablement.
Partner with operations, security, and platform teams to strengthen monitoring, observability, structured audit logging, and automated governance.

Requirements & Eligibility

12+ years of software engineering experience in Java and Python, focused on platform engineering, backend systems, distributed architectures, and enterprise integrations.
6+ years of hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Next.js, TypeScript) to build intuitive developer portals, operator dashboards, and self-service interfaces.
Deep expertise with AWS and event-driven architectures alongside enterprise iPaaS platforms (Zapier, n8n, etc).
Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices: IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD release automation, API contract design (REST/GraphQL), and unit/integration testing standards.
Experience in platform reliability, central logging, error recovery, operational observability, and self-service governance frameworks.