Senior Software Engineer - Java Developer
Okta · Posted Oct 30
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
The Okta Agentic Services Team builds the next generation of tools that let customers use Okta alongside AI agents, pioneering infrastructure based on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and contributing to open source SDKs. The team works at the intersection of identity, security, and AI-driven developer tooling. This role designs and develops AI-enabled tools and open source SDKs, and owns highly available, scalable backend services in Java with strong observability, security, and operational practices.
What you will do
- Design and develop the next generation of AI-enabled tools that allow Okta customers to seamlessly utilize AI agents, heavily leveraging the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Actively build, maintain, and contribute to Open Source SDKs, empowering the broader developer community to easily incorporate Okta into their AI-driven applications and workflows.
- Design, develop, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient services and applications, including clear low-level designs, robust APIs, and effective data models.
- Own end-to-end technical solutions across multiple services or components, ensuring code quality, observability, security, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business and customer requirements into technical solutions that can be reused across domains.
- Lead code and design reviews, drive engineering best practices, and mentor other engineers to improve technical execution and maintain high standards.
- Diagnose complex production issues, improve reliability and performance through data-driven analysis, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
- Raise the Bar: Champion sustainable engineering practices. You will be the standard-bearer for best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring, guiding the team toward the next generation of our fintech systems.
- Be a Trusted Mentor: Serve as a humble mentor and technical advisor to both junior engineers and peer leaders. You will foster an environment of psychological safety, helping teams navigate differences in opinion to commit and move forward effectively.
- Force Multiplier: Act as a role model for judgment and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you for guidance on how to plan, execute, and deliver high-leverage solutions that impact the entire group.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and advanced system design.
- 4+ years of experience working on backend and distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing and evolving the architecture of multi-service or domain-level systems, including well-structured APIs, data models, and integration patterns.
- Demonstrated success improving performance, reliability, and scalability of high-traffic or mission-critical systems using data-driven analysis and experimentation.
- Experience driving engineering excellence initiatives such as test automation, CI/CD improvements, security hardening, and operational best practices.
- Hands-on experience integrating or operating AI/ML‑enabled capabilities within production services or workflows, including responsible use of AI to enhance user or business outcomes.
- Familiarity with AI-driven developer productivity or observability tools and applying AI-related techniques in a way that is appropriate and safe for large-scale software systems.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business teams.
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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