Staff Software Engineer, Identity Administration

Overview

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

What you'll do

• Own feature areas end to end from technical design through deployment and post-launch monitoring.
• Design, build, and ship production-ready features focused on correctness, reliability, and performance.
• Deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues.
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and maintain high engineering quality.
• Collaborate with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping, development, and deployment.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens for service-to-service communication.
• Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services with distributed systems/microservices.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (Fargate, EC2, Lambda) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Comfortable managing your own cloud resources.

Nice to have

• Experience with Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog for monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Kafka or SQS for cross-org asynchronous events.
• Basic familiarity with React/JavaScript to integrate backend services.
• Understanding of building and deploy services across isolated infrastructure units.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.