Staff Identity Governance and Access Engineer

<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><div class="SingleJob-content"> <h4><strong>The Identity Governance and Access Security Team</strong></h4> <p>The Identity Governance and Access Security team runs Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) for Okta itself — serving as Okta's "Customer Zero." The team owns the complete identity lifecycle for the workforce, from birthright provisioning through Workday to access certifications, privileged access management, and mover/leaver processes. What the team builds becomes the reference architecture that Okta customers deploy at scale.</p> <h4><strong>The Staff Identity Security Engineer Opportunity</strong></h4> <p>We're looking for a Staff Identity Security Engineer to take deep technical ownership of our Okta Identity Governance (OIG), Okta Privileged Access (OPA), and ISPM implementations. This is a senior individual-contributor role where you'll set technical direction for how the team builds on top of these platforms and raise the bar for the engineering team through review, mentorship, and documentation. You should be equally comfortable in an architecture discussion, in a live Okta Workflows debugging session, and writing the design doc that a Jira epic gets broken down from. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in an autonomous environment and actively drives "what's next" for our identity security posture — identifying process bottlenecks, designing technical solutions, and pushing initiatives from concept to production without waiting for direction.</p> <h4><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></h4> <ul> <li><strong>OIG Architecture Ownership:</strong> Own OIG architecture end-to-end — design access request workflows, entitlement/Resource Collections structures, and certification campaigns that reduce reviewer fatigue and rubber-stamping.</li> <li><strong>Lifecycle, Birthright &amp; RBAC Strategy:</strong> Lead lifecycle, birthright, and RBAC strategy — design and deploy automated birthright access rules, RBAC frameworks, and seamless joiner/mover/leaver (JML) processes across t