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The Engineering Opportunity

Okta's Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) secures billions of global logins every day. The Resilience Team within WIC maximizes service availability by building foundational, high-scale systems. Our engineers solve complex distributed-systems challenges - from database proxies to traffic shaping - to ensure the platform remains trustworthy and reliable for every customer.

We are seeking a Staff Back-End Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives and own the reliability of our expanding Identity as a Service platform.

In this role, you will develop microservices, build innovative frameworks, and optimize our cloud-native environment. You will champion reliability during design phases and collaborate across teams to address technical gaps.

We value iterative development, automated testing, and individual ownership.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to design, develop, and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects that solve complex reliability issues and help Okta’s service scale.
• Design and implement robust backend frameworks, tools, microservices, and library components for the entire engineering organization to use at scale.
• Champion innovative, scalable, and resilient solutions across the engineering organization, advising other teams on fault-tolerant system design.
• Actively explore and integrate modern AI-driven developer tooling, automated diagnostics, and predictive monitoring capabilities to streamline performance testing, accelerate debugging, and optimize service reliability.
• Conduct rigorous design and code reviews. Raise the engineering bar by implementing high-quality unit and functional tests to ensure robust programming standards.
• Participate in and lead incident Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes to continuously improve reliability, identify systemic weaknesses, and build long-term mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate closely with Architects, QA, Product Owners, Engineering Services, and Tech Ops to deliver highly secure and dependable software.
• Help with mentoring new engineering hires and interns.

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 8+ years of experience as a software developer with deep, expert-level knowledge of Java (Golang experience is a strong plus).
• Demonstrated history of architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging global cloud software. Deep understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred, Azure, or GCP), and modern container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven track record of addressing scaling, redundancy, and performance bottlenecks in high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Practical experience or strong interest in leveraging generative AI utilities and developer assistance tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, automated code-generation, intelligent log analytics, or predictive profiling tools) to drive development productivity and system optimization.
• Outstanding communication and leadership skills with a proven ability to coordinate high-impact technical projects, manage stakeholder alignment, and influence technical direction.
• Previous experience in a dedicated platform reliability, resilience, or core infrastructure role is highly valued.

Education and Training

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent industry experience.