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Okta is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team. You will work on enhancing, scaling, and managing backend services for importing, syncing, and provisioning identities and access policies (users, groups, roles, entitlements, etc.) within Okta's enterprise-grade identity management platform.
In this role, you will contribute to backend architectural design, implementation, and operational maintenance of features and microservices with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and security. You will drive projects from ideation to implementation with minimal supervision, working closely with Product and Design teams. Key responsibilities include designing and building high-throughput, low-latency REST/gRPC APIs, asynchronous messaging pipelines, and backend infrastructure for identity lifecycle management. You will partner with Product Development and QA teams for scoping, testing, and deploying backend services at scale, and contribute to the team's engineering excellence through robust testing, observability, monitoring, and operational readiness practices.
The ideal candidate is deeply technical, passionate about building high-quality, secure, and performant backend applications and microservices, and capable of driving technical initiatives while mentoring other engineers. You will work within a global organization spanning over 20 offices, with an emphasis on innovation and connection.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend concentration
- Proven experience with companies operating at similar scale
- Proven expertise in Java and modern backend frameworks (Spring Boot, Hibernate)
- Strong track record of designing, building, and operating scalable backend services and microservices in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Prior experience with infrastructure-level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures
- Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and data modeling for high-scale systems
- Strong understanding of asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and distributed caching solutions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills for distributed teams
- B.Tech./B.E. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
NICE TO HAVES:
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) protocols and standards (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM)
- Experience with threat modeling, security engineering, and secure API design
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
