Staff Software Engineer, Identity Administration
OktaOkta is a
Bangalore, IndiaLead
Software EngineeringNew
About the role
TL;DR
Staff Engineer to design, build, and maintain identity administration workflows for enterprise customers.
- •Okta's Identity Governance organization is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Identity Administration team.
- •This team is responsible for critical enterprise identity workflows, including how employees request and gain access to resources.
- •Key Responsibilities Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas from design through deployment and monitoring.
- •Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features focused on correctness, reliability, and performance.
- •Quickly deliver bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues.
- •Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and uphold high engineering quality standards.
- •Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams.
- •Requirements 7+ years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang, with deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing.
- •Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens for service-to-service communication.
- •Demonstrated AI fluency in agentic systems and modern AI applications.
- •Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services with in-depth knowledge in distributed systems/microservices architectures.
- •Solid 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).
- •Strong proficiency with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD automation tools (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions).
Required skills
JavaGoJWTREST APIgRPCMicroservicesPostgreSQLMySQLRedisAWSTerraformDockerKubernetes
Nice-to-have skills
DatadogReactJavaScript
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Tech stack
JavaSpringGoJWTREST APIgRPCMicroservicesMySQLPostgreSQLRedisAWSEC2TerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDJenkinsArgoCDGitHub ActionsDatadogReactJavaScript