Okta

Staff Software Engineer - Backend, Identity Threat Protection

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4 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, deliver, and support cloud-native identity threat protection and security products from concept through production.
  • Design and operate complex, large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments.
  • Lead technical design discussions and make trade-offs involving scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product management, design, support, and documentation teams.
  • Maintain high programming standards through code reviews and comprehensive unit and functional testing.
  • Work effectively with remote teams to ensure product quality, agility, and delivery velocity.
  • Mentor, groom, and educate junior engineers as a player-coach.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience with a record of technical leadership and mentorship.
  • Deep expertise in Java, including object-oriented design, multithreading, and high-performance services.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating complex, large-scale distributed systems in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Strong understanding of architectural patterns for scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Ability to independently debug and remediate issues in complex or unfamiliar codebases and systems.
  • Strong ownership, prioritization, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Powerful security background and a record of championing security best practices.
  • Preferred experience with anomaly detection systems, risk systems, cloud security, identity, authentication protocols, or modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role with an intentional in-person onboarding experience.
  • Support for employee well-being, social impact, talent development, connection, and community.
  • Global work community spanning more than 20 offices worldwide.

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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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