Senior Software Engineer (Core Frontier)
Okta · Posted Oct 12
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta's Core Identity organization owns the very heart of the Auth0 application, including the authentication pipeline, identity protocols, user sessions, and the foundational elements of the platform, along with its technical health, performance, and efficiency. The new Core Frontier team acts as the architectural bridge ensuring sophisticated Core Identity features (such as Native to Web, Cross-App Access and Custom Token Exchange) are hardened, scaled, and seamlessly integrated into the Auth0 ecosystem. This senior role works primarily on a Node.js (TypeScript/JavaScript) backend with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis on multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure), solving complex distributed systems challenges at global scale.
What you will do
- Be a founding engineer of this new team in Bengaluru, setting the technical bar and engineering culture for our growing presence in the region and working in collaboration with our global teams in Europe and North America.
- Build and design innovative features that extend the capabilities of Auth0’s platform to help our customers innovate around the world securely and delightfully.
- Contribute to the strategic technical quality, security, reliability, and scalability of our systems, and advocate for engineering best practices.
- Thrive in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment, working with talented engineers and partners across Product, Security, Design, Architecture and QA to deliver features that delight our customers and ensure a unified technical vision.
- Deepen or gain expertise in identity, security, and modern cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) while working on distributed systems at scale.
- Mentor and be mentored by other engineers and contribute to our culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our critical services remain healthy and reliable.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, or equivalent.
- Proficiency in designing and building services with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript).
- Experience creating and maintaining public and secure APIs, as well as front ends.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- A strong commitment to quality, with experience in various testing strategies (e.g., unit, integration, end-to-end).
- A product-oriented mindset, with the ability to understand customer needs and work collaboratively to find effective solutions.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain.
- Knowledge of security engineering principles and application security best practices.
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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