- Company: Okta
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Okta is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Advanced Integration Builder team. This role focuses on building and maintaining backend services, provisioning frameworks, and authentication connectors that allow customers to secure access to thousands of enterprise applications. You will set technical direction across multiple integrations and shared frameworks, solving complex reliability and architecture problems at scale.
Responsibilities
- Drive the design and execution of complex initiatives spanning multiple app integrations or shared frameworks.
- Lead technical design discussions for new integration patterns and consolidate duplicated logic into reusable frameworks.
- Solve systemic reliability problems such as rate-limit handling, pagination, and multi-tenant support.
- Act as a guardian-level responder for integration-pipeline incidents and drive root-cause analysis.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, including vendor API deprecations and backward-compatibility obligations.
- Partner with product, support, and security teams to influence product direction and own outcomes beyond code.
- Set standards for code quality, testing rigor, and documentation across the team.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and contribute to hiring and interview loops.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating reliable, production-grade backend systems at scale.
- Deep proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with the ability to design systems consumed by multiple teams.
- Deep experience with asynchronous job processing, event-driven architectures, and resilient systems design.
- Strong command of relational databases (MySQL) and caching strategies (Redis or similar).
- Experience designing shared libraries or frameworks consumed by multiple teams.
- Track record of driving incident response, RCAs, and systemic reliability improvements.
- Comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems with minimal supervision.
- Decent frontend experience in React and JSP to review, guide, and occasionally build features.
- B.E./M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Pay and benefits
Okta offers a global community spanning over 20 offices worldwide. The company emphasizes supporting employee well-being, driving social impact, and developing talent. An immersive, in-person onboarding experience is provided to help new hires connect to the mission and team from day one.
How to apply
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