Get to know OktaOkta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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 is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 10,000 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.

We are looking for University students pursuing a Computer Science degree who are interested in a 2025 Summer Internship and who are passionate about building large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced agile environment. The ideal candidate will share our passion and pride in deploying mission-critical systems at scale and have an interest in solving one-of-a-kind problems.

We are looking for dynamic and collaborative software engineering interns to join the Site Reliability team.  We also have opportunities across a wide range of areas within our engineering organization.

Our elite team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership, we expect great things from all of our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies, and the chance to have a significant impact in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever. We have offices in San Francisco's SoMa district and downtown Bellevue, Washington.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement features in a Scrum/Agile environment
• Design and deploy high-performance, scalable software features
• Interest in operating systems, containers and deploying highly-reliable, mission-critical software at scale.

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to program in at least one programming language (e.g. Java, python, ruby, or Go) 
• Basic understanding of containerized services like Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of RDBMs’, NoSQL databases, Containers or Application Servers (experience in one or more preferred)
• Basic understanding of networking, encryption, authentication and authorization
• Experience using with a cloud web service and its API (AWS/GCP)
• Interest or experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies, especially Terraform
• Past summer internship experience, ideally in enterprise software companies

Education and Training: (In progress) B.S., MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Okta’s Intern Program

As an intern, you’ll do real work that matters. While you’re on board, you’ll work on meaningful projects and have an opportunity to see what working at Okta is all about. You’ll also have the support of your mentor and manager to help you develop new skills. 

Our interns have the opportunity to build a strong community - with their fellow interns, within their teams, and with the broader company. We want you to grow professionally and you’ll do that through participating in events like our Executive Speaker Series and Brown Bags.  And of course, we want you to have fun too.

Interns may choose the format of their internship: either in-person at one of our Okta offices, or virtually. We give our interns the opportunity to choose the option that best suits their needs. We offer 12 week internships in the U.S. in the Summer and 16 week co-ops in Canada. 

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What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging 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! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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