Senior Software Engineer
Okta · Posted Nov 5
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta is an independent provider of enterprise identity, whose Identity Cloud connects people to technologies through thousands of integrations. The Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team builds and maintains services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies such as users, groups, roles and entitlements. This role focuses on designing, building and scaling those platform services on cloud infrastructure, including connectors to on-prem and cloud apps.
What you will do
- Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
- Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
- Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for broad features
- Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues
- Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX teams) to develop connectors to on-prem and cloud apps
- Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
- Design and implement core, high-performance, scalable software components
- Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance.
- Troubleshooting and support for customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.)
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission- critical software
- Experience with object-oriented languages, e.g. Java
- Experience with data stores, e.g. relational databases
- Experience with one or more of the following Directory services: Active Directory, LDAP
- Experience with RESTful APIs
- Ability to debug
- Experience working with a system of scale
- B.S. Computer Science or related field
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading
- Experience in TDD
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM
- Microsoft Azure management APIs, ADFS, Office 365 or Microsoft’s Directory Synchronization Tool , Active Directory
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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