Staff Software Engineer Java Backend

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Team

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 Staff Software Engineer to work on our Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team with focus on enhancing and managing services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies i.e., users, groups, roles, entitlements, etc. These features allow customers the flexibility to link and enhance their business processes with Okta’s identity management product. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale. The ideal candidate is someone who has experience building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure.

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• 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
  
  

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• 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
• 7+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experiences with Hibernate 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 working with relational databases, ideally MySQL, PostgreSQL or GraphDB
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
• Lead and mentor junior engineers
  
  

Education

• B.S. Computer Science or equivalent
  
  

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
  
  

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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