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
Partner with engineering teams to design, develop, and deliver cloud-based: infrastructure projects that solve complex reliability issues and help Okta’s service scale.
Design and implement robust backend frameworks, tools, microservices, and: library components for the entire engineering organization to use at scale.
Champion innovative, scalable, and resilient solutions across the engineering: organization, advising other teams on fault-tolerant system design.
Actively explore and integrate modern AI-driven developer tooling, automated: diagnostics, and predictive monitoring capabilities to streamline performance testing, accelerate debugging, and optimize service reliability.
Conduct rigorous design and code reviews. Raise the engineering bar by: implementing high-quality unit and functional tests to ensure robust programming standards.
Participate in and lead incident Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes to: continuously improve reliability, identify systemic weaknesses, and build long-term mitigation strategies.
What they're looking for
- Collaborate closely with Architects, QA, Product Owners, Engineering: Services, and Tech Ops to deliver highly secure and dependable software.
- Help with mentoring new engineering hires and interns.
- + years of experience as a software developer with deep, expert-level: knowledge of Java (Golang experience is a strong plus).
- Demonstrated history of architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging: global cloud software. Deep understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred, Azure, or GCP), and modern container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes).
