Description
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Core Infrastructure team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work with engineering teams to design, develop, and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack. You will drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new common microservices, operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks, and collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security, and operations engineers.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work with a talented team of engineers and technically-minded managers. You will be joining a team that is fast, creative, and flexible, with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.
Minimum required knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth
- Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 7+ years of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services
- 7+ years of experience working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems
- Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and good understanding of its fundamentals
- Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Tomcat
- Knowledge of AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Docker
- Familiarity with network security, authentication, and authorization as a nice-to-have
- Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
- Experience with enterprise SaaS as a good-to-have
- Familiarity with Agile software development process
The Okta Experience:
- Supporting Your Well-being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.