Senior Software Engineer, Identity Administration

Okta's Identity Governance (OIG) organisation is looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Identity Administration team, which handles critical workflows for enterprise identity.

As a Senior Engineer on the OIG Identity Administration team, you will develop, design, and maintain products serving enterprise customers at scale. You will work on product features spanning different identity entities and personas, collaborating with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver secure, scalable, and user-friendly features.

Responsibilities:

• Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas, from technical design to implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring
• Design, build, and ship high-quality features across the OIG system, focusing on correctness, reliability, and performance
• Deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and uphold high engineering standards
• Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for development and deployment work

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang, with a deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing
• Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
• Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale
• Hands-on experience with AWS (Fargate, EC2, Lambda) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Strong proficiency with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD automation tools (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions)

Nice to haves:

• Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens for service-to-service communication
• Experience with Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog for monitoring and troubleshooting production issues
• Familiarity with Kafka or SQS for handling cross-org asynchronous events
• Basic familiarity with React/JavaScript for integrating backend services