# Staff Backend Engineer

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bengaluru, India
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organisations to safely embrace this new era.

We're redefining Privileged Access Management (PAM) from the ground up, purpose-built for Cloud, SaaS, Databases, Containers, and any virtualised environment. Our mission is to simplify and secure workforce access with seamless, secure-by-default workflows that adapt dynamically to modern infrastructure.

## About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to serve as the core technical anchor and senior Individual Contributor (IC) for our newly established engineering pod in India. At the P4 level, your primary sphere of influence will be at the team level,taking ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and defining how to solve them cleanly, securely, and efficiently.

## What You'll Be Doing

### Execution & Technical Impact

- End-to-End Ownership: Consistently design, code, debug, test, monitor, and deploy performant backend services and connector plugins in Go.

- Define the "How": Take well-defined product goals and ambiguous technical challenges, break them down into modular technical designs, and execute them with minimal oversight.

- Component Architecture: Design reliable, scalable components for database scraping and network protocol management (SSH, Telnet, SNMP) using spikes, proof-of-concepts, and telemetry to back up architectural decisions.

### Operational Excellence & Engineering Craft

- Guardian Support & Incident Ownership: Actively participate in global on-call rotation. Demonstrate system-level understanding to troubleshoot complex incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and build remediation automation.

- Drive Team Velocity: Identify tech debt, streamline CI/CD pipelines, improve observability/alerting, and establish technical documentation to keep the team moving fast over the long term.

- Risk Management: Proactively spot technical risks, dependency gaps, and performance bottlenecks in your team's projects before they impact delivery.

### Team Multiplier & Strategic Alignment

- Technical Mentorship: Elevate the team's craft by conducting thorough, constructive code reviews, establishing best practices in Go, and pairing with P2/P3 engineers.

- Global Collaboration: Partner with global Technical Leads to review major design proposals, manage dependencies, and ensure local execution matches global architecture strategy.

## What You'll Bring to the Role

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years spent building high-scale, cloud-native backend systems.

- Proven Staff-Level (P4) Attributes: Demonstrated ability to independently own large tasks end-to-end, influence technical decisions across a team, and elevate the performance of surrounding engineers.

- Domain & Protocol Expertise: Experience in Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity & Access Management (IAM), or deep networking infrastructure. Familiarity with credential management, asset discovery, or agentless communication patterns.

- Hands-on Go Proficiency: Strong engineering skills in Go (or deep expertise in C++/Rust/Java with a proven record of mastering Go quickly).

- Distributed Systems & Networking: Hands-on experience with networking protocols (SSH, Telnet, TCP/IP), database security, microservices, and asynchronous event-driven systems.

- Cloud & Operational Toolkit: Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD automation, and modern telemetry/observability tools.

- Multiplier Mindset: High empathy, humility, and clear communication skills with a focus on sharing knowledge, soliciting feedback, and driving a positive engineering culture.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Cloud-native backend systems
- Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Networking infrastructure
- Distributed Systems & Networking
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD automation

### Nice to have
- Direct experience at domain leaders in security/PAM
- Experience working with Graph databases (e.g., ArangoDB)
- Policy engines (e.g., OPA)
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects or technical blogging

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