# Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $194k – $267k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Java, Kubernetes, MySQL, Spring Boot, AWS, Redis, Docker, Terraform, rest, hibernate, tomcat, gRPC
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Staff backend engineer building and scaling Okta's shared cloud infrastructure and services (search, cache, async jobs, email pipelines) on AWS/Kubernetes. Requires 8+ years Java/backend experience, Kubernetes, databases, and mentorship skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Docker, Terraform on AWS).
- Drive evaluation, development and rollout of new common features and frameworks.
- Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.
- Conduct design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standards by writing 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.

## Requirements
- Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth.
- Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
- 8+ years of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A superior understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, memory management.
- 3+ years experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing databases and fine tuning queries is a plus.
- 3+ years experience developing, operating, optimizing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes. Experience with AWS EKS is a plus, so is experience with GCP.
- Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals. Knowledge of gRPC is a plus.
- Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Tomcat, AWS, Redis, and Docker.
- Knowledge of network security, authentication and authorization.
- Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS as a good-to-have.
- Familiarity with Agile software development process.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Master's degree.
- Experience with AWS EKS.
- Experience with GCP.
- Knowledge of gRPC.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS.

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