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 organizations to safely embrace this new era.
As a member of the Developer Productivity Engineering team, you will tackle high-impact challenges across development environments, AI enablement for engineering, scalability, and stability. Your work directly powers developer velocity, system reliability, and software quality at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Design & Automation: Build and ship automated solutions that allow developers to deliver features rapidly without compromising quality, stability, or security standards.
- Environment Performance & Tuning: Analyze local development workflows, build tools to track operational metrics, and profile/tune development environments.
- AI & Tooling Enablement: Leverage AI technologies across the development stack and automate environment configuration to accelerate developer velocity.
- Code Health & Best Practices: Define guidelines for modern code organization, build systems, and maintainable software architecture.
- Developer Support & Collaboration: Partner directly with developers, architects, and Release Engineering to streamline CI/CD pipelines, optimize local builds, and resolve complex environment issues.
- Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Stay at the forefront of industry trends in developer efficiency, integrating modern tools and processes into Okta's engineering ecosystem.
Qualifications:
- Experience: 6+ years of professional software development experience in fast-paced environments with a proven track record of engineering excellence.
- Core Tech Stack: 3+ years of hands-on experience developing, debugging, profiling, and performance tuning in Java, Spring, and Tomcat.
- Build Systems: Deep expertise in configuring, profiling, and optimizing build tools such as Maven, Gradle, or Bazel for high performance.
- Containerization & Cloud: Direct experience with container technologies and familiarity with major public cloud platforms.
- CI/CD & Source Control: Strong familiarity with Git, modern continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, and developer tooling.
- Collaboration & Adaptability: Strong collaborative mindset with the ability to navigate cross-functional engineering teams, communicate clear standards, and rapidly master new technologies.