Staff Software Engineer

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Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology-anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Team

The Okta platform provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.

The Staff Software Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to work on our directory services. Okta's identity management group is focusing on identity stores and managing the lifecycle. Our platform manages the user, group and memberships, with stringent performance, reliability and scalability requirements. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale. The ideal candidate is someone who has experience building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure.

What you'll be doing:

• Understand our identity management group codebase and development process: Jira, Technical Designs, Code Review, Testing, and Deployment
• Develop and implement frameworks and toolings for our directory services platform
• Design and implement high-performance distributed scalable and fault-tolerant software components.
• Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
• Conduct quality code reviews and automated testings
• Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work

What you'll bring to the role:

• The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
• 7+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experiences with Hibernate and Spring Boot
• 5+ years of development experience building services, internal tools and frameworks
• 3+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
• Hands-on understanding with the practical application of SQL databases
• Experience working with systems of scale ranging from monolithic applications to microservices.
• Experience of ElasticSearch, Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
• Experience working with Active Directory or Microsoft Azure would be a plus

Education

• B.S. Computer Science or equivalent

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta

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