Job description

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.

Title: Senior Software Engineer

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:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work on our Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team with focus on enhancing and managing services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies i.e., users, groups, roles, entitlements, etc. These features allow customers the flexibility to link and enhance their business processes with Okta’s identity management product. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale.

The ideal candidate will be naturally curious and has experience building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for broad features
Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues
Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX teams) to develop connectors to on-prem and cloud apps
Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management
Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
Design and implement core, high-performance, scalable software components
Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance.
Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
Troubleshooting and support for customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.)

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

5+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission- critical software
Experience with object-oriented languages, e.g. Java
Experience with data stores, e.g. relational databases
Experience with one or more of the following Directory services: Active Directory, LDAP
Experience with RESTful APIs
Ability to debug
Experience working with a system of scale

Nice to haves:

Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading
Experience in TDD
Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM
Microsoft Azure management APIs, ADFS, Office 365 or Microsoft’s Directory Synchronization Tool , Active Directory

Education and Training:

B.S. Computer Science or related field

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The Okta Experience

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

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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