Staff Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management

Secure Every Identity from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.

Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management platform built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta organizations can manage access across any application person or device. Whether the people are employees partners or customers or the applications are in the cloud on-premises or on a mobile device Okta helps organizations become more secure make people more productive and maintain compliance.

The Okta platform provides directory services single sign-on strong authentication provisioning workflow and built-in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure reliable extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on-premises applications directories and identity management systems.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to work on our Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team with a focus on enhancing scaling and managing backend services for importing syncing and provisioning identities and access policies (users groups roles entitlements etc.). These features allow customers the flexibility to link and enhance their business processes with Oktas identity management product.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on knowledge in Java who is deeply technical passionate about building high-quality secure and performant backend applications and microservices and capable of driving technical initiatives while mentoring other engineers.

• 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 teams engineering excellence and best practices around robust testing observability monitoring and operational readiness.

• 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.

• 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).

• . / B.E. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  
  
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