Staff Software Engineer, Java, Backend

Overview

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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.

Company Description:

Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,950 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers

Position Description:

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.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to work on our Advanced Apps team with focus on enhancing and managing connectors to SaaS applications e.g., Workday, Salesforce, GCP, AWS, etc. They will work closely with the Lifecycle Management (LCM) team that provides a platform for automating Joiner, Mover, Leaver processes. The Connectors allow customers the flexibility to Import and Provision identity and entitlements to their SaaS applications. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our connectors to match application’s features and for scale.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
• Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX teams) to understand application specific protocols and build connectors
• Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management.
• Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance.
• Design & Implement features with functional and unit tests along with monitoring and alerts
• Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
• Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for application specific features
• Troubleshooting and support for  customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.) 
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to more junior engineers

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• 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
• 8+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experiences with SCIM and Spring Boot.
• 5+ years of development experience building services, internal tools and frameworks
• 2+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures
• Experience with RESTful APIs and SOAP apis.
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
• Lead and mentor junior engineers.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading.
• Experience in TDD.
• Experience with UI development or javascript frameworks
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM

 Education and Training:

• BE/BTech, Computer Science or related field

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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