Staff Software Engineer (Apple)
Company: Okta
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-05
About this role
- 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
- We engineer the end-to-end device experience—from our flagship FastPass, Okta Device Access (ODA), and Device Assurance
- 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
- 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
- We seek a dynamic and influential Staff Software Engineer to join our Device Authenticators engineering team
- The ideal candidate will leverage their deep Swift experience to architect, build, and scale the critical client application 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
- 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
- Drive cross-f...