Staff Software Engineer, Identity Administration

Okta
Bengaluru
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Systems thinking","Craftsmanship","Ownership","Engineering quality","Collaboration"]

Own end-to-end delivery of features for Okta’s Identity Governance (OIG) Identity Administration team, including technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. Build secure, scalable, high-performance services and APIs for enterprise access governance, fix production issues quickly, and partner with Product, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering. You’ll shape engineering quality, reliability, and performance for workflows used by millions of users.

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Staff Software Engineer, Identity Administration

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end delivery of features for Okta’s Identity Governance (OIG) Identity Administration team, including technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. Build secure, scalable, high-performance services and APIs for enterprise access governance, fix production issues quickly, and partner with Product, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering. You’ll shape engineering quality, reliability, and performance for workflows used by millions of users.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring.
  • •Design, build, and ship production-ready features focused on correctness, reliability, and performance across the OIG system.
  • •Deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues quickly.
  • •Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and maintain high engineering quality standards.
  • •Partner with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to scope development and deployment work.

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang, with strong understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing.
  • •Expertise in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens for service-to-service communication.
  • •Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services, with deep knowledge of distributed systems/microservices architectures.
  • •Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale.
  • •Hands-on experience with AWS (Fargate, EC2, Lambda) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), plus containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions).
Experience:7+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:Systems thinkingCraftsmanshipOwnershipEngineering qualityCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaSpringDropwizardGolangOAuth 2.0OIDCJWTRESTGRPCMicroservicesDistributed systemsMySQLPostgreSQLRedisAWSFargateEC2LambdaTerraformDocker

Company Brief

Okta
Provides identity and access management cloud solutions that help organizations secure and manage user authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management across applications and devices.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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