Staff Software Engineer, Identity Administration
Okta, Bengaluru, India +1
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What you will do
- Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
- Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance
- Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates to a high bar for engineering quality
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
What you need
Required knowledge, skills, and abilities
- 8 to 13 years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang, with a deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing.
- Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens, specifically for service-to-service communication.
- Demonstrated AI fluency in agentic systems and modern AI applications.
- Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services with in-depth knowledge in distributed systems / micro services architectures.
- Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale.
- Hands-on experience with AWS (Fargate, EC2, Lambda) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform). You should be comfortable managing your own cloud resources.
- Strong proficiency with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD automation tools (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions).
Education and Training
- B.S. Computer Science or related field
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Nice to have
- Experience with Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog for monitoring and troubleshooting production issues.
- Familiarity with Kafka or SQS for handling cross-org asynchronous events.
- Basic familiarity with React/JavaScript to help integrate backend services.
- Understanding of how to build and deploy services across isolated infrastructure units
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.