# Staff Software Engineer **Company**: Okta **Location**: Bengaluru, India **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okta/jobs/7725948 **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4f71a295-9c1 ## Description We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to work on our next-generation Imports Platform team. The Imports Platform team is leading a strategic initiative to modernize Okta's identity lifecycle management capabilities by architecting and migrating from a legacy monolithic system to a highly scalable, distributed microservices platform. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Imports Platform team, you will be a technical leader who independently owns projects end-to-end, from ideation and architectural design through implementation, deployment, and operational excellence. You will drive technical strategy, make critical architectural decisions, and influence both your immediate team and cross-team initiatives. You will work on complex distributed systems challenges including massive-scale batch processing, real-time synchronization, and user matching algorithms that serve thousands of enterprise customers. This role requires strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health. You will mentor senior and junior engineers, partner with Product Management on feature strategy, and help shape the future of Okta's Imports platform. This is a hybrid position requiring a blend of remote and in-office collaboration. Responsibilities: - Provide technical leadership on major development projects, including architectural design and implementation strategy - Independently own and deliver projects end-to-end within the team, including technical prioritization and tradeoffs - Generate design ideas and solutions for ambiguous problems, taking complete ownership from conception through production impact - Design and architect core, high-performance, scalable software components with full ownership of all production aspects (scalability, reliability, monitoring, alerting, resource efficiency, testing, documentation) - Lead technical design discussions and guide the team in making architectural decisions - Drive the migration strategy from monolithic to microservices architecture, including planning, scoping, and execution - Interface extensively with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, UX, and SRE) to deliver comprehensive import and sync solutions - Analyze and refine requirements with Product Management, partnering on product features and helping define the 'how' - Conduct code reviews with focus on systems design, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and maintainability - Share knowledge widely, coordinate across teams, and manage risk and dependencies for projects - Work with QA and SRE teams to define comprehensive testing strategies and operational excellence practices - Independently troubleshoot complex production incidents spanning the home team, perform root cause analysis, and drive operational improvement projects - Use data and metrics to drive technical decisions and validate the impact of architectural changes - Mentor and provide technical guidance to senior and junior engineers on the team - Help resolve difficult customer issues and work closely with Field teams and CSMs to identify patterns and drive product improvements - Participate in group strategy discussions and help break down strategic initiatives into actionable technical milestones - Proactively identify and advocate for improvements in team velocity, engineering practices, and operational processes - Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, and production support capabilities Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - 7+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission-critical software at scale - Deep expertise with object-oriented languages, particularly Java, with proven ability to architect large-scale systems - Expert-level knowledge of Spring Boot framework, Maven, and modern Java development practices - Deep understanding of infrastructure-level technologies: distributed systems, caching strategies, stream processing, resilient architectures - Solid experience with data stores including relational databases (MySQL), caching layers (Redis), and cloud storage (S3) - Experience with one or more Directory services: Active Directory, LDAP, Office 365, Azure AD - Strong experience with RESTful APIs, gRPC, and microservices architecture patterns - Proven track record of working with systems at massive scale, including batch processing and real-time sync capabilities - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) including services like SQS, S3, and multi-region architectures - Strong understanding of distributed job processing, message queues, and event-driven architectures - Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects independently and influence cross-team initiatives - Excellent communication skills with ability to share information widely and coordinate across teams - Strong mentorship capabilities with experience guiding senior and junior engineers - Customer-focused mindset with experience working with Field teams to resolve complex issues - Strategic thinking ability to participate in and contribute to platform strategy - Experience with operational excellence including incident management, root cause analysis, and driving systemic improvements Nice to Haves: - Experience with Protocol Buffers (Protos) and building event-driven systems - Experience with server-side technologies including advanced caching, asynchronous processing, multi-threading, and concurrency patterns - Experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) and automated testing strategies - Deep knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, LDAP - Experience with Microsoft Azure management APIs, Microsoft Graph API, Office 365, or ADFS - Experience automating and deploying large-scale production services in AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms - Experience with feature flag frameworks and gradual rollout strategies for large-scale migrations - Understanding of user matching, correlation algorithms, and identity resolution at scale - Experience with observability platforms, creating comprehensive monitoring and alerting strategies - Experience migrating monolithic applications to microservices architecture - Knowledge of data modeling for graph databases and relationship management - Experience with incremental sync, delta detection, and change data capture patterns - Background in building resilient systems with retry logic, circuit breakers, and failure handling - Experience with performance optimization and capacity planning for high-throughput systems Education and Training: B.S. Computer Science or related field ## Skills ### Required - Java - Spring Boot - Maven - distributed systems - caching strategies - stream processing - resilient architectures - relational databases - caching layers - cloud storage - Directory services - RESTful APIs - gRPC - microservices architecture patterns - batch processing - real-time sync capabilities - cloud platforms - distributed job processing - message queues - event-driven architectures