Staff Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management

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...

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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.

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.

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