Senior Software Engineer, Device Identity ( Toronto) at Okta
- Company: Okta
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Employment type: full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-11
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human<br><br></strong>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. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.<br><br>This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Senior Software Engineer, Device Identity&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human</strong></p> <p>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. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are, too, let's talk.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Device Identity and Access Organization</strong></p> <p>The Device Identity and Access organization is at the forefront of Okta’s Zero Trust vision. As a foundational pillar within Okta Research and Development (ORD), our mission is to transform the device itself into a secure, trusted, and effortless identity factor. We are the teams responsible for ensuring users can seamlessly interact with their work from any endpoint, anywhere in the world.</p> <p>We engineer the end-to-end device experience—from our flagship <a href="https://www.okta.com/products/fastpass/">FastPass</a>, <a href="https://www.okta.com/products/device-access/">Okta Device Access</a> (ODA), and <a href="https://help.okta.com/oie/en-us/content/topics/identity-engine/devices/device-assurance.htm">Device Assurance</a>. Our teams own the continuous authentication pipeline, device lifecycle management, and the sophisticated cloud services that analyze real-time trust and assurance signals to make frictionless, passwordless access a reality across Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux and Android.</p> <p>Our organization is comprised of engineers who thrive at the intersection of deep client-side platform engineering and massive-scale distributed systems. The work we do secures millions of enterprise endpoints globally, prevents modern identity attacks, and fundamentally changes how people work by making world-class security completely invisible to the end user.</p> <p>Explore our culture and technical innovations on the <a href="https://www.okta.com/blog/topic/engineering/">Okta Engineering Blog</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The Senior Software Engineer Opportunity</strong></p> <p>We seek a dynamic and influential Senior Software Engineer to join our Device Identity engineering team. The ideal candidate will leverage their deep Java experience to architect, build, and scale the critical server-side software and services at the heart of our security and identity platform. This is a high-visibility, hands-on opportunity to design solutions for current and emerging industry challenges.</p> <p>You will not only demonstrate an aptitude for software engineering excellence but also act as a player-coach, mentoring other engineers and elevating the team's capabilities. You will join an engineering team that shares a passion for elegant solutions and believes in designing for scale, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative process to build high-quality enterprise software.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll be doing&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Drive cross-functional collaboration</strong> with Product, Design, and QA to ensure the seamless delivery of our most critical engineering initiatives.</li> <li><strong>Lead the design and implementation</strong> of new features and services within our core Java platform, taking ownership from conception to deployment.</li> <li><strong>Define and champion engineering best practices</strong>, and make critical contributions to technical designs, proposals, and long-term architectural decisions.</li> <li><strong>Mentor and coach</strong> other engineers through code reviews,
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