Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
About the team
As part of our vision to Free Everyone to Safely Connect to any Technology, Okta is investing in a new team to help B2B / Enterprise SaaS companies showcase their integrations with Okta Integration Network (OIN) platform via a full-featured catalog and drive engagement and adoption through sophisticated analytics & telemetry.
This involves redesigning the technical architecture & the user experience of the OIN catalog to allow for expansion across multiple categories of integrations along with building analytical & telemetry tools on top of it to drive more ISVs to build with Okta. We are constantly thinking about fostering network effects on the existing OIN Platform by designing for reach, scale and extensibility.
Join us in building the next generation of the Okta, as we increase its footprint to even broader capabilities and showcasing them.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join an innovative and fast moving full-stack team to build a new set of developer-facing products to achieve this mission. We welcome personalities that are self-driven, think outside-the-box, take pride in shipping high quality software and most importantly kind.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity.
- Work with user experience designers and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies.
- Develop secure and reusable components to enable other teams to easily implement UIs with rich and consistent look and feel.
- Develop APIs and SDKs that developers love. The target audience for this team’s roadmap is the developers working at the B2B Enterprise SaaS companies.
- Have a high bar for security, test-driven development, design reviews and code reviews while harboring a sense of urgency.
- Define long-term observability and reliability metrics for the systems/features that they own.
Required Skills, Attitude and Knowledge:
- 5+ years experience with React, Angular or Backbone (JavaScript MVC frameworks) along with a deep understanding of the JavaScript language
- Experience shipping user interfaces for production-grade applications in an agile, product-oriented environment
- Proficient in at least one of the backend languages and frameworks - Java, C#, Typescript (NodeJS).
- Demonstrable knowledge of HTTP fundamentals with strong API Design skills.
- Understanding of debugging scalable, high performance web applications built with reusability and "componentization" in mind.
- Strong experience with cross-browser compatibility and optimization techniques
- Experience working with at least one cloud-native system of scale (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Track record of delivering work incrementally to get feedback and iterating over solutions.
- Have an infectious enthusiasm and bring the right attitude to the team regarding ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.
- Excellent written communication skills, bringing structure to ambiguous concepts, and driving closure on them methodically using first principles.
- Possess or have interest in developing a strong product sense.
Bonus Points:
- Have built fault-tolerant & scalable integrations to third-party services.
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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
