Staff Software Engineer
Okta · Posted Sep 30
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 the Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. The platform provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built-in reporting, running on a secure, reliable, extensively audited cloud platform that integrates deeply with on-premises applications, directories, and identity management systems. This Staff Software Engineer role sits on the Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team, building, designing, and maintaining services for importing, syncing, and provisioning identities and access policies such as users, groups, roles, and entitlements at scale.
What you will do
- Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
- Be a key contributor in the implementation of the LCM infrastructure
- Troubleshooting customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.)
- Design & Implement features with functional and unit tests along with monitoring and alerts
- Conduct design & code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
- Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to more junior engineers
- Interface with Architects, QA, Product Owners, Engineering Services, Tech Ops
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
- 8+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experiences with SCIM and Spring Boot.
- 5+ years of development experience building services, internal tools and frameworks
- 2+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar.
- Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures
- Experience with RESTful APIs and SOAP apis.
- Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
- Lead and mentor junior engineers.
- B.S. Computer Science or related field
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading.
- Experience in TDD.
- Experience with UI development or javascript frameworks
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM
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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