Okta

Principal Software Engineer

Okta
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2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, build, and lead highly scalable software systems across multiple teams.
  • Define technical vision, roadmaps, architecture standards, and long-term execution strategies with product and engineering leadership.
  • Own mission-critical software across design, implementation, automated testing, global delivery, and observability.
  • Lead new product-line development and reduce deep architectural technical debt.
  • Lead architecture reviews, code reviews, retrospectives, and continuous operational-improvement efforts.
  • Collaborate with QA, Technical Support, Documentation, UX, Product Management, Engineering Directors, and Principal Architects.
  • Mentor senior, staff, and mid-level engineers and promote knowledge sharing and technical excellence.

Requirements

  • 13+ years of experience architecting, delivering, and operating large-scale distributed systems for global performance.
  • Deep experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Express in modern web ecosystems.
  • Extensive experience designing and operating highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure using Kubernetes and Docker on AWS and GCP.
  • Advanced experience designing, versioning, and securing enterprise APIs using RESTful, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols.
  • Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, automated testing, and test automation tools such as Playwright.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant industry experience.
  • Preferred experience with data modeling, query optimization, PostgreSQL, Terraform, containerization, orchestration, and scaling large codebases.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with an immersive in-person onboarding experience.
  • Employee well-being support, social-impact programs, talent development, and community-building initiatives.
  • Opportunity to collaborate across Okta’s global community and more than 20 offices.
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About Okta

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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