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About the Role

Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure to enable organizations to safely embrace AI. This role offers an opportunity to do career-defining work on a mission-driven team focused on securing every identity, from AI to human.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Docker, Terraform on AWS).
• Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new common features and frameworks.
• Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks, scaling them as usage grows.
• Conduct design and code reviews, ensuring high programming standards by writing unit and functional tests.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks owned by the team.
• Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security, and operations engineers.

Requirements

• Immense passion for helping Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth.
• Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging large cloud deployments.
• 8+ years of programming experience in an object-oriented language like Java, with a focus on backend services.
• Superior understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.
• 3+ years of experience working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems.
• Experience with designing databases and fine-tuning queries is a plus.
• 3+ years of experience developing, operating, optimizing, and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS EKS is a plus, as is experience with GCP.
• Demonstrated experience working with ReST and a thorough understanding of its fundamentals.
• Knowledge of gRPC is a plus.
• Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Tomcat, AWS, Redis, and Docker.
• Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization.
• Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS is a good-to-have.
• Familiarity with Agile software development processes.
• Ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.
• Must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status upon hire.

Skills

• Java
• Object-oriented programming
• Multithreading
• Garbage collection
• Memory management
• MySQL
• Kubernetes
• AWS EKS
• GCP
• ReST
• gRPC
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Hibernate
• Tomcat
• AWS
• Redis
• Docker
• Network security
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Agile software development

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Staff level
• 8+ years of programming experience
• 3+ years experience with MySQL
• 3+ years experience developing on Kubernetes

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Master's preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $194,000—$267,000 USD

Benefits

• Equity (where applicable)
• Bonus
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the Company

• Okta is the identity standard, providing an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time.
• The Core Engineering team builds and evolves shared infrastructure and services, including search, cache, configuration management, and frameworks for async job management and email pipelines.
• The team is cloud native, prioritizing redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization, and resiliency.
• Okta's mantra is 'Always On!'
• The company offers a global community across over 20 offices worldwide, united by a drive to innovate.
• The Okta Experience includes an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.

Equal Opportunity

• Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Okta considers for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for the job application, interview process, or onboarding.