Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack
Okta · Posted Oct 8
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta builds trusted, neutral identity infrastructure that lets organizations securely embrace AI and manage human and machine identities. The Advanced Integration Builder team builds and maintains backend services, provisioning frameworks, authentication connectors, and next-generation Entitlement Management engines that let Okta customers secure, integrate, and govern access to thousands of third-party enterprise applications, from cloud platforms and AI agentic systems to legacy on-prem systems. This Staff Software Engineer role sets technical direction across integrations and shared frameworks, focusing on distributed systems, API client architecture, and operational excellence at scale, with lighter React and JSP frontend involvement.
What you will do
- Technical Leadership: Independently drive the design and execution of complex, ambiguous initiatives spanning multiple app integrations or shared frameworks used across dozens of connectors.
- Architecture & Design: Lead technical design discussions for new integration patterns and shared abstractions; identify opportunities to consolidate duplicated per-app logic (REST/SOAP clients, exception handling, OAuth utilities) into reusable frameworks, reducing long-term maintenance burden across the integration portfolio.
- Scale & Reliability: Solve systemic reliability problems — rate-limit handling, pagination/throttling abstractions, multi-tenant and compliance-variant support — that affect many integrations simultaneously, not just a single app.
- Operational Excellence: Act as a guardian-level responder for integration-pipeline incidents; drive root-cause analysis and remediation for systemic issues; lead operational improvement projects (observability, alerting, on-call runbooks) across the team's full integration portfolio.
- Technical Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical risk in the team's roadmap — vendor API deprecations, backward-compatibility obligations across dozens of live integrations, and legacy protocol support .
- Cross-Functional Ownership: Partner with PMs, support, security, and other engineering teams to prioritize, influence product direction for the integration catalog, and own outcomes beyond code — including research and recommendations on build-vs-buy or deprecation decisions.
- Code Quality & Technical Standards: Set the bar for code review, testing rigor (unit, API/mock-server, and nightly functional tests against third-party endpoints), and documentation across the team.
- Mentorship & Team Growth: Mentor engineers at all levels, unblock teammates on complex integration and distributed-systems problems, and contribute meaningfully to hiring and interview loops.
- Engineering Culture: Champion engineering best practices internally
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience: 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating reliable, production-grade backend systems at scale.
- Backend Expertise: Deep proficiency in Java and Spring Boot; demonstrated ability to design systems or shared libraries consumed by multiple teams.
- Distributed Systems at Scale: Deep experience with asynchronous job processing, event-driven architectures, and designing resilient systems (retry/backoff, rate limiting, circuit breakers) that tolerate dozens of heterogeneous, unreliable third-party dependencies.
- Data Management: Strong command of relational databases (MySQL) and caching strategies (Redis or similar) at scale.
- API & Framework Design: Experience designing shared libraries/frameworks consumed by multiple teams (e.g., provisioning adapters, client-session abstractions) — not just single-service APIs.
- Operational Leadership: Track record of driving incident response, RCAs, and systemic reliability improvements for production systems with many integration points.
- Problem Solving & Ownership: Comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems and driving them to resolution with minimal supervision.
- Decent Frontend Experience: While the role is backend-dominant, you should be comfortable building and modifying UI in React and JSP well enough to review/guide frontend changes and step in to build features
- Education: B.E./M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Deep experience with identity/IAM standards (SCIM, SAML, OAuth, OIDC) or directory services (AD, LDAP) across many simultaneous integrations.
- Integration & Auth Protocols: Strong working knowledge of REST/SOAP integration patterns and authentication/federation standards (OAuth2, SAML, WS-Federation), including supporting legacy protocols alongside modern ones.
- Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS architectures and/or specialized compliance environments (FedRAMP/GCC-High).
- Experience with message brokers/queueing systems (Kafka) for large-scale asynchronous processing.
- A track record of leading architectural consolidation efforts (reducing duplicated per-integration code into shared frameworks).
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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