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What Okta asks for in software and data roles at tech companies · 23 roles · Jul-Oct 2026

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Cybersecurity · okta.com

In short

Among the software and data roles we count at tech companies in Jul-Oct 2026, 23 are at Okta. The largest group is software engineer roles (6), then site reliability engineer (4) and data analyst (2). The skill required most often is Programming, in 8 of 9 roles with requirements read, then Go (7) and CI/CD (5).

What the postings ask for

Out of the 9 roles whose requirements we could read, of 23 in all. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Programming
8 of 9
Go
7 of 9
CI/CD
5 of 9
Distributed Systems
5 of 9
Java
5 of 9
Kubernetes
5 of 9
Python
5 of 9
APIs
4 of 9
AWS
4 of 9
Infrastructure as Code
4 of 9
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Identity and Access Management
4 of 9
Observability
4 of 9
AWS
3 of 9
Azure
3 of 9
Cloud Infrastructure
3 of 9
GCP
3 of 9
GitOps
2 of 9
Microservices
2 of 9
Tracing
2 of 9
AI
1 of 9

Experience

Of the 6 roles that state years

1+ year
6 of 6
2+ years
6 of 6
3+ years
6 of 6
5+ years
6 of 6
8+ years
4 of 6
10+ years
1 of 6

Degree

Of the 9 roles we could read for it

Required
0 of 9
Required, or experience instead
5 of 9
Preferred
0 of 9
Not mentioned
4 of 9

Pay and remote work

Of the 23 roles we could read for it

Roles stating pay
9 of 23
Remote roles
0 of 23

Roles here

  • Software engineer6 roles
  • Site reliability engineer4 roles
  • Data analyst2 roles
  • Forward deployed engineer2 roles
  • Machine learning engineer2 roles
  • QA engineer2 roles
  • AI engineer1 role
  • Data engineer1 role
  • DevOps engineer1 role
  • Security engineer1 role

Open roles (15)

Newest first

Source: Okta careers (Greenhouse). Each role opens our summary, with a link to the original posting.

How we count: 23 roles, Jul-Oct 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Methodology