Senior Software Engineer
Okta
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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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