Okta Staff Software Engineer at Okta focusing on Privileged Access Management (PAM) products. Responsible for designing, developing, and delivering cloud-based PAM solutions using modern JavaScript and cloud-native backend technologies.
Responsibilities
Leverage cutting-edge AI pair-programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products.
Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based privileged access management solutions.
Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features using modern JavaScript and cloud-native backend technologies.
Lead technical design for key initiatives, driving quality, scalability, and maintainability.
Build reusable and performant UI components for a best-in-class no-code builder experience.
Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new features and common platform components.
Evaluate existing systems to evolve them for serving in specialized circumstances to support Okta's future business needs
Conduct thorough design and code reviews, ensuring that proposed solutions account for scalability, redundancy, and multi-tenancy. Uphold high programming standards by consistently writing comprehensive unit and functional tests
Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks the team owns
Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers
Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers
Qualification
Solid technology chops in architectingExperience with AWSKnowledge of network security
Required
Proven expertise leveraging AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC) while maintaining high code quality.
Immense passion for doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth,
Extensive experience with cloud based software security product development.
Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
A good understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms”
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
9+ years of extensive programming experience in a modern programming language like Go, Java, or C++ especially in backend services. Go is preferred, but not mandatory.
Good knowledge of modern frontend javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue etc.
4+ years experience working with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing and querying databases with optimization in mind is a plus.
Demonstrated experience of working with REST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals
Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker
Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
