Senior/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.

About the Team

Tired of hacking together a login system for every new application or microservice that you need to deploy? Want to contribute to a platform that makes authentication for any application super simple? Then Okta’s Developer Community Products team needs you!

If you're passionate about open-source development and have a solid background in application development with Go, we want you on our team. You'll be instrumental in building and maintaining Okta's automated tools for generating and managing OpenAPI specifications, directly impacting the platform's developer experience. You'll also work closely with leadership to define and execute our technical vision.

About the Role

In this role you will be working on the leading edge of our Open Source Software (OSS) program and will gain invaluable experience with library design and development, as well as interacting with a community of engaged developers who use your work on a daily basis. This role provides the opportunity to implement clean, well-tested code, adhering to our high standards for quality and maintainability. You will also have the ability to help guide the direction of this team by building technical designs and working with product management to build the roadmap.

Okta is an extensible identity platform and our APIs allow developers at companies of all sizes to integrate Okta into their own applications. The Developer Community Products team is responsible for empowering developers by identifying common use cases and creating tools and SDKs that simplify Okta integrations, while helping them understand our product and the protocols that we support.

We are a polyglot team and while we are looking to scale our Golang and Java engineering, we also value a generalist mindset and co-learning across stacks. We work closely as a team to design solutions that work across languages and environments.

Interested in the work we do? It's open source, check us out on GitHub ;)

What you'll be doing

• Build Technical Designs for the DCP Team
• Participate in product development and roadmap exercises
• Interact with our customers through GitHub, responding to issues and reviewing pull requests
• Participate in software design and code review for all libraries that the team creates
• Implement holistic testing strategies to assert we're delivering a good developer experience, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Write documentation and how-to content for the libraries that you create

What you bring to the team

• 8+ years working as an application developer (you've written and deployed production code, and can empathize with the development process.)
• Intermediate knowledge of the OpenAPI Spec v3 and/or Swagger
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Experience with API design and development.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Java and Go programming languages.
• Experience with unit and end-to-end testing
• Experience working with a product-oriented, agile culture
• Active involvement with CI/CD concerns, hands-on experience with tools such as CircleCI, Travis, and Jenkins

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with other languages, such as Java, .NET, Node, or Python
• Experience interacting with other developers on GitHub (e.g. opening issues, contributing to issues, filing pull requests)
• Experience building libraries or tools that are depended on by other developers, internal or external
• Experience with Redoc.ly

#LI-Onsite

This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our Bengaluru, IN office during the first week of employment.

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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