Staff Software Engineer, Identity AdministrationPosted today

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas: from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring

  • Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the: OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance

  • Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues

  • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates: to a high bar for engineering quality

  • Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering: teams for scoping the development and deployment work

  • + years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang, with a: deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing.

What they're looking for

  • Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens, specifically for service-to-service communication.
  • Demonstrated AI fluency in agentic systems and modern AI applications.
  • Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services with: in-depth knowledge in distributed systems / micro services architectures.
  • Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale.