Staff Software Engineer (Java Backend)

The Team

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 Staff 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 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

• Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
• Be a key contributor in the implementation of the LCM infrastructure
• Troubleshooting customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.) 
• Design & Implement features with functional and unit tests along with monitoring and alerts
• Conduct design & code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
• Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance 
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to more junior engineers
• Interface with Architects, QA, Product Owners, Engineering Services, Tech Ops
• Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
• 7+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experiences with Hibernate and Spring Boot
• 5+ years of development experience building services, internal tools and frameworks
• 2+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
• Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures
• Experience working with relational databases, ideally MySQL, PostgreSQL or GraphDB
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
• Lead and mentor junior engineers

Education 

• B.S. Computer Science or equivalent
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