Senior Software Engineer, Identity Administration

Overview

Senior Software Engineer for Okta’s Identity Governance (OIG) Identity Administration team, building and maintaining enterprise access governance workflows.

What you'll do

• Own feature areas end-to-end from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring.
• Design, build, and ship production-ready features for the OIG system with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance.
• Deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues.
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold a high engineering quality bar.
• Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to scope development and deployment work.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing.
• Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.
• Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including Fargate, EC2, and Lambda, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Comfort managing your own cloud resources and using containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).

Nice to have

• Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens for service-to-service communication.
• Experience with Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog for monitoring and troubleshooting production issues.
• Familiarity with Kafka or SQS for cross-org asynchronous events.
• Basic familiarity with React/JavaScript to integrate backend services.
• Understanding of how to build and deploy services across isolated infrastructure units.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.