Okta

Staff Backend Engineer 

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13 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, code, debug, test, monitor, and deploy performant backend services and connector plugins in Go.
  • Own ambiguous technical problems end to end and create modular, reliable, and scalable designs.
  • Build database scraping and network protocol management components for routers, switches, and firewalls.
  • Participate in the global on-call rotation, troubleshoot incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and create remediation automation.
  • Improve technical debt management, CI/CD pipelines, observability, alerting, documentation, and engineering velocity.
  • Mentor P2/P3 engineers through code reviews, pairing, and Go best practices.
  • Collaborate with global technical leads on architecture, design proposals, dependencies, and execution alignment.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building high-scale, cloud-native backend systems.
  • Demonstrated Staff-level ability to own large tasks end to end, influence team-level technical decisions, and elevate surrounding engineers.
  • Experience in Privileged Access Management, Identity & Access Management, deep networking infrastructure, credential management, asset discovery, or agentless communication patterns.
  • Strong Go proficiency, or deep expertise in C++, Rust, or Java with the ability to quickly master Go.
  • Hands-on experience with SSH, Telnet, TCP/IP, database security, microservices, and asynchronous event-driven systems.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD automation, and telemetry or observability tools.
  • Experience with PAM or IAM companies such as CyberArk or Delinea, graph databases such as ArangoDB, policy engines such as OPA, open-source infrastructure, or technical blogging is preferred.
  • Strong communication, empathy, humility, knowledge-sharing, feedback-seeking, and engineering-culture skills are expected.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with an immersive in-person onboarding experience.
  • Programs supporting employee well-being, social impact, talent development, connection, and community.
  • Global collaboration across a community spanning 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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