Senior Software Engineer (Java Backend)

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

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The Okta platform provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work on our directory services. Okta's identity management group is focusing on identity stores and managing the lifecycle. Our platform manages users, groups and memberships, with stringent performance, reliability and scalability requirements. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale. The ideal candidate is someone who 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

• Understand our universal directory codebase and development process: Jira, Technical Designs, Code Review, Testing, and Deployment
• Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
• Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues
• Conduct quality code reviews and automated testings
• Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for broad features
• As part of the ongoing development in the team, provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers
• Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX teams) to develop connectors to on-prem and cloud apps
• Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
  
  

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 and/or Golang
• Experience with data stores, e.g. relational databases, graph DB, etc.
• Experience with one or more of the following Directory services: Active Directory, LDAP
• Experience with RESTful APIs and gRPC
• 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
• Experience with UI development or javascript frameworks
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, etc
• Experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
  
  

Education and Training:

• B.S. Computer Science or related field
  
  

What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
  
  

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