6 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, cross-cutting initiatives spanning multiple application integrations and shared frameworks.
- Define integration architecture, reusable abstractions, API client patterns, and provisioning frameworks.
- Solve systemic reliability challenges involving rate limiting, pagination, throttling, multi-tenancy, and third-party dependencies.
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, observability, alerting, runbooks, and operational improvement efforts.
- Manage technical risks involving vendor API deprecations, backward compatibility, and legacy protocol support.
- Partner with product, support, security, and engineering teams on integration catalog priorities and build-versus-buy or deprecation decisions.
- Set standards for code review, unit testing, API and mock-server testing, nightly functional testing, and documentation.
- Mentor engineers, unblock complex technical work, and participate in hiring and interview loops.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating reliable production-grade backend systems at scale.
- Deep proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, including designing systems or shared libraries used by multiple teams.
- Deep experience with asynchronous job processing, event-driven architectures, retries, backoff, rate limiting, and circuit breakers.
- Strong command of MySQL and Redis or comparable caching technologies at scale.
- Experience designing shared libraries and frameworks rather than only single-service APIs.
- Experience leading incident response, root-cause analyses, and systemic reliability improvements.
- Ability to own ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems with minimal supervision.
- Comfort building and modifying React and JSP interfaces sufficiently to review, guide, and implement frontend features.
- B.E. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience includes SCIM, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, AD, LDAP, REST, SOAP, OAuth2, WS-Federation, multi-tenant SaaS, FedRAMP, GCC-High, Kafka, and architectural consolidation efforts.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with an immersive in-person onboarding experience.
- Well-being support, social-impact programs, talent development, and community-building opportunities.
- Global workplace spanning more than 20 offices worldwide.
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About Okta
Okta builds cloud-based identity and access management for enterprises and developers, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management. It sells subscription SaaS as the Okta Workforce Identity and Customer Identity Clouds; the latter incorporates Auth0, acquired in 2021. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Okta is a public company traded on Nasdaq.