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.
The Engineering Opportunity
We are looking for top notch back end software engineers who solve some of the hardest problems in Okta Engineering and own the reliability of our growing Identity as a Service Platform. This platform is the foundation for our main SaaS offerings, with a multitude of common services like caching, DB clustering and async frameworks that rest of the engineering teams build on. This multi-faceted team evaluates and adopts new technologies, builds innovative frameworks, crafts new microservices and tunes the platform that help Okta provide a reliable, robust and responsive service to our customers. The projects these engineers work on are impactful and highly visible presenting excellent growth opportunities and breadth of experience across various technologies. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens.
You'll be joining a team of highly skilled and talented team players who are proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to change the cloud computing landscape forever.
What you’ll be doing
- Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects that will solve reliability issues and help Okta’s service scale
- Champion innovative and scalable solutions across the engineering organization
- Drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks
- Conduct design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standards by writing unit and functional tests.
- Implement unit and functional tests
- Collaborate with Architects, QA, Product Owners, Engineering Services, Tech Ops
What we are looking for
- Experience with enterprise SaaS
- Demonstrated history of architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging global cloud software and infrastructure
- Programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services.
- Significant experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems
- Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and Docker or similar technologies
- Passion for following best practices in software engineering
- Familiarity with Agile software development process
- Previous experience in a platform reliability role
- Education and Training: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community 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/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
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.
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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.
