16 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural design and implementation of scalable, performant, and secure backend features and services.
- Design, build, and maintain identity onboarding and lifecycle management services for importing, syncing, and provisioning identities and access policies.
- Directly oversee and coordinate complex technical initiatives involving more than 20 engineers across multiple workstreams.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, QA, SRE, and engineering teams to define technical strategy, prototype components, and deliver development and deployment work.
- Drive engineering excellence through robust testing, monitoring, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor junior engineers and create frameworks and solutions that improve productivity across teams.
- Stay current with identity, security, and distributed-systems technologies and apply relevant practices to Okta’s platform.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software development experience in Java.
- At least 4 years of experience automating and deploying large-scale production services in AWS, GCP, or a similar cloud environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical projects involving more than 20 engineers across multiple workstreams.
- Deep technical expertise in Java and experience with Hibernate and Spring Boot preferred.
- Strong knowledge of design patterns, scalability patterns, security engineering, object-oriented principles, caching, stream processing, and resilient architectures.
- Experience with relational databases, ideally MySQL, PostgreSQL, or GraphDB.
- Experience with server-side caching, asynchronous processing, and multithreading preferred.
- Knowledge of security best practices, threat modeling, and identity and access management protocols including OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, and SCIM preferred.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across functions and distributed teams.
- Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
- Programs supporting employee well-being, social impact, talent development, connection, and community.
- Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support.
Tech Stack
Categories
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.