Senior Java Engineer (Design & DSA)
Okta · Posted Oct 10
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity, and its Identity Cloud connects people to technologies across 6,500+ pre-built integrations and 7,950+ customer organizations. The Okta Recovery Vault (ORV) team builds Okta's enterprise-grade soft-delete and object recovery capability, protecting critical identity objects such as Users and Groups from accidental or malicious deletion. This Senior Software Engineer role owns the technical design, implementation, and operational reliability of real-time, high-fidelity recovery components, including identity preservation (UUIDs) and relationship restoration such as group memberships, app assignments, and password hashes.
What you will do
- Feature Execution: Drive the technical design and end-to-end implementation of complex features, such as granular and bulk recovery workflows across Free and Advanced Resilience tiers.
- Component Design: Design and build reliable core components for real-time recovery systems that capture deletion events and support scalable data restoration.
- Relationship & State Management: Solve challenging engineering problems around relationship restoration (group memberships, app assignments, device enrollments) and state consistency.
- Security & Compliance: Implement secure logging and tracking for all recovery operations (soft-delete, restore, permanent-delete) in Syslog to adhere to strict audit and compliance standards.
- Product & Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Product Managers and technical leads to clarify requirements, define technical scope, and break down complex projects into actionable milestones.
- Operational Excellence: Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis (RCAs), and enhance system observability, logging, and metrics.
- Code Quality & Technical Standards: Champion engineering best practices through thorough code reviews, automated testing, and comprehensive technical documentation.
- Team Growth: Provide guidance and peer mentorship to intermediate and junior engineers on the team to foster technical growth and code quality.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience: 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling highly reliable, production-grade applications.
- Java Expertise: Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming, with extensive experience in Java and the Spring Boot framework.
- Distributed Systems: Solid experience with distributed system patterns, asynchronous job processing, and event-driven architectures (essential for bulk restore operations).
- Data Management: Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and caching strategies (e.g., Redis) to manage state and high-throughput data snapshots.
- API Design: Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining robust RESTful APIs for enterprise integration.
- Problem Solving & Ownership: Proven track record of independently breaking down ambiguous requirements into clean, scalable software designs.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity with Identity and Access Management (IAM) standards (SCIM, SAML, OAuth, OIDC) or directory services (AD, LDAP).
- Experience with resilient systems design (e.g., retry strategies, circuit breakers, rate limiting).
- Hands-on experience with feature flagging frameworks and gradual/canary deployment strategies.
- Experience with queueing systems or message brokers (e.g., Kafka).
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Okta
Okta is a leading independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions that securely connect people and technologies to the right applications. The company powers both Workforce Identity and Customer Identity platforms, allowing organizations to securely manage user access and navigate modern challenges like agentic AI security.
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Company size
- 7500+ employees
- Founded
- 2009
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $228M raised
- 2010-02-01Series A$10M
- 2011-08-01Series B$16.5M
- 2012-12-01Series C$25M
- 2013-09-01Series D$27M
- 2014-06-01Series E$75M
- 2015-09-01Series F$75M
- 2018-02-21Post IPO Debt$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Legal Officer
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