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Okta is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Advanced Integration Builder team. This team builds and maintains backend services, provisioning frameworks, authentication connectors, and entitlement management engines that enable Okta customers to secure, integrate, and govern access to thousands of third-party enterprise applications—from modern cloud platforms (Microsoft Office 365, Workday, Salesforce, AWS, ServiceNow) and AI agentic systems to legacy on-premises systems.
As a Staff Engineer, you will set technical direction across multiple integrations and shared frameworks, resolve complex cross-application reliability and architecture problems (rate limiting at scale, backward compatibility), and raise the engineering bar for the team. This is a backend-intensive role centered on distributed systems, API client architecture, and operational excellence at scale. While day-to-day frontend involvement is lighter relative to backend work, you'll need solid React and JSP experience to guide and occasionally build new feature requests.
Key responsibilities include:
- Independently drive design and execution of complex, ambiguous initiatives spanning multiple app integrations or shared frameworks used across dozens of connectors
- Lead technical design discussions for new integration patterns and shared abstractions; consolidate duplicated per-app logic (REST/SOAP clients, exception handling, OAuth utilities) into reusable frameworks
- Solve systemic reliability problems—rate-limit handling, pagination/throttling abstractions, multi-tenant and compliance-variant support—affecting many integrations simultaneously
- Act as a guardian-level responder for integration-pipeline incidents; drive root-cause analysis and remediation for systemic issues; lead operational improvement projects across the team's integration portfolio
- Identify and mitigate technical risk in the team's roadmap—vendor API deprecations, backward-compatibility obligations, and legacy protocol support
- Partner with PMs, support, security, and other engineering teams to prioritize, influence product direction, and own outcomes beyond code
- Set the bar for code review, testing rigor (unit, API/mock-server, and nightly functional tests), and documentation
- Mentor engineers at all levels, unblock teammates on complex problems, and contribute to hiring and interview loops
- Champion engineering best practices internally
Requirements:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating reliable, production-grade backend systems at scale
- Deep proficiency in Java and Spring Boot; demonstrated ability to design systems or shared libraries consumed by multiple teams
- Deep experience with asynchronous job processing, event-driven architectures, and designing resilient systems (retry/backoff, rate limiting, circuit breakers) that tolerate dozens of heterogeneous, unreliable third-party dependencies
- Strong command of relational databases (MySQL) and caching strategies (Redis or similar) at scale
- Experience designing shared libraries/frameworks consumed by multiple teams (e.g., provisioning adapters, client-session abstractions)—not just single-service APIs
- Track record of driving incident response, RCAs, and systemic reliability improvements for production systems with many integration points
- Comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems and driving them to resolution with minimal supervision
- Comfortable building and modifying UI in React and JSP well enough to review/guide frontend changes and step in to build features
- B.E./M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to haves:
- Deep experience with identity/IAM standards (SCIM, SAML, OAuth, OIDC) or directory services (AD, LDAP) across many simultaneous integrations
- Strong working knowledge of REST/SOAP integration patterns and authentication/federation standards (OAuth2, SAML, WS-Federation), including supporting legacy protocols alongside modern ones
- Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS architectures and/or specialized compliance environments (FedRAMP/GCC-High)
- Experience with message brokers/queueing systems (Kafka) for large-scale asynchronous processing
- Track record of leading architectural consolidation efforts
