Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their customers’ experiences. With over 15,800 customers globally, 7000+ app integrations, and well over 200 million registered users, we are only getting started.

Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.

You'll be joining a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

Job, duties and responsibilities:

Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform on AWS)

Drive evaluation, development and roll out of new common microservices

Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.

Help with design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standard by writing unit and functional tests.

Assist with monitoring, troubleshooting of services and frameworks the team owns

Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers

Help with mentoring new engineering hires and interns

Minimum required knowledge, skills and abilities:

Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth

Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

7+ yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A good understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, memory management.

4+ yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. Knowledge of NoSQL databases is a plus.

Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and good understanding of its fundamentals

Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and Tomcat

Knowledge of AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Docker

Familiarity with network security, authentication and authorization as a nice-to-have

Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles

Experience with enterprise SaaS as a good-to-have

Familiarity with Agile software development process

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