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Principal Software Engineer; Golang

Job in Toronto, Ontario, C6A, Canada
Listing for: Okta
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-11
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 177000 CAD Yearly CAD 177000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Principal Software Engineer (Golang)

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Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box – we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. It integrates directly with an organization’s existing services such as directories and identity systems, as well as many other applications. With Okta Workflows, organizations can implement workflows quickly, easily, at a large scale, and low total cost.

Hundreds of customers, including NTT and MGM, trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

Position Description

We are looking for a Principal-level engineer who is passionate about building and evolving the developer productivity ecosystem used by the entire Workflows Engineering organization.

As a productivity engineer, you’ll work with both our Engineering and Site Reliability teams, owning our developer CLI (Golang) and Kubernetes tooling, automated release processes, and CI/CD systems in Circle

CI.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with the SRE and Engineering teams to manage, extend, and enhance existing developer productivity and platform tooling for local and remote Kubernetes environments
  • Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines in CircleCI
  • Assist in weekly release orchestration
  • Automate and improve processes via Golang tooling and Okta Workflows
Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • 10+ years of deep understanding of software engineering processes, agile framework, tools (e.g.: programming proficiency in a language, preferably Go or similar compiled language), methods, test development, algorithms, and data structures
  • Passionate about learning new technical ecosystems
  • Interested in working with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale, with familiarity of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Cloud Native Technologies (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Docker)
  • Experience with CI/CD Systems such as Circle

    CI or Github Actions
  • Experience with development and deployment in a hosted cloud environment, preferably AWS
Education and Training

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Salary

P20683

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

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The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $177,000—$265,000 CAD

Benefits
  • Amazing Benefits
  • Making Social Impact
  • Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live.

Find your place at Okta today!

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