Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Azure Integrations Team
We are looking for dynamic and collaborative software engineers to join the Azure Integrations team that focuses on integration with Microsoft's Azure AD Identity Platform. We have opportunities across a wide range of areas within our engineering organization.
The Senior Software Engineer Opportunity
We are looking for experienced engineers that are passionate about building large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced agile environment. The ideal candidate will share our passion and pride in the simple elegance and usability of our solution and will join an engineering team that strongly believes in automated testing, UX design and an iterative process to build high-quality next generation enterprise software. This is a hybrid role.
What you’ll be doing
- Understand our Azure Integrations codebase and development process: Jira, Technical Designs, Code Review, Testing, and Deployment.
- Analyze, refine and shape requirements with product management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity.
- Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues
- Work with various stakeholders to scope and plan engineering efforts to ensure project and feature launch success.
- Design and implement high-performance distributed scalable and fault-tolerant software components.
- Enjoy working across a cross-functional team consisting of QA, Product Management, Technical Support, Documentation, TPM and UX to create an extensible platform.
- Implement unit and integration tests for the features you develop.
- Own features and/or systems and define their long-term health and observability and reliability metrics.
What you’ll bring to the role
- 3+ years of backend software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software.
Solid understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns (i.e. data structures, algorithms, and component design). - Solid understanding of server side programming principles (HTTP, Load Balancing, Database systems, Caching, Asynchronous processing, Webhooks, Cloud Computing, Cryptography, Authentication & Authorization).
- Solid understanding of authentication and authorization protocols and frameworks (i.e. OAuth, OIDC, SSO, federated identity management, multi-factor authentication and digital certificates).
- Good understanding and experience working with Microsoft’s Graph APIs - a RESTful web API that enables access Microsoft Cloud service resources, especially identity APIs
- Experience working with systems of scale ranging from monolithic applications to microservices.
- Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading. We use Java, Spring, Hibernate, Redis.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Ability to look beyond the surface and be sensitive to underlying problems.
- Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
Nice to have
- Experience using Okta
- Experience with front end development, e.g. ReactJS
Education and Training: B.S., MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field
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What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
