Staff Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management
Okta · Posted Sep 29
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management platform, built from the ground up in the cloud, providing directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built-in reporting. The Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team builds and scales backend services for importing, syncing, and provisioning identities and access policies such as users, groups, roles, and entitlements. This role will drive backend architectural design and build high-throughput, low-latency REST/gRPC APIs and asynchronous messaging pipelines for identity lifecycle management.
What you will do
- Contribute to backend architectural design, implementation, and operational maintenance of features and microservices, prioritizing scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
- Ability to drive projects from ideation to implementation with minimal supervision, working with the Product and Design teams.
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency REST/gRPC APIs, asynchronous messaging pipelines, and backend infrastructure for identity lifecycle management.
- Partner with Product Development, QA teams for scoping, testing, and deploying backend services at scale.
- Contribute to the team’s engineering excellence and best practices around robust testing, observability, monitoring, and operational readiness.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend concentration.
- Proven experience with companies operating at a similar scale.
- Proven expertise in Java and modern backend frameworks (such as Spring Boot and Hibernate).
- Strong track record of designing, building, and operating scalable backend services and microservices in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Prior experience of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures.
- Solid experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and data modeling for high-scale systems.
- Strong understanding of asynchronous messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and distributed caching solutions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across distributed teams.
- B.Tech. / B.E. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) protocols and standards (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM).
- Experience with threat modeling, security engineering, and secure API design.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
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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