Position Description

We are looking for an experienced and highly technical principal software engineer to join the Identity Experience team. The team is responsible for building the Okta Identity Engine and creating a customizable platform that allows Okta’s customers to configure and brand our out-of-the-box product and make it their own. We are looking for smart, innovative and passionate engineers to join the team and lead the technical path of the future of Identity Management in the era of cloud.

You will share our passion and great pride in elegant solutions and will join an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for scale, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative process to build high-quality next generation enterprise software. Identity is deeply important and providing a platform for customers to secure their applications is one of your passions.

Company Description:

Okta is an enterprise grade identity management platform, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta, organizations can manage access across any application, person or device. Whether the people are employees, partners or customers or the applications are in the cloud, on premises or on a mobile device, Okta helps organizations become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance.

The Okta platform provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, review and troubleshoot highly scalable software
• Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management
• Work with engineering management to scope and plan engineering efforts
• Collaborate with QA, Product Management, Technical Support, Documentation and UX team

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 7+ years of backend software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software
• Experience with Java, Hibernate, Spring
• Solid grasp of software engineering principles and practices
• Experience working with a system of scale
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, Federation, SSO, etc.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading
• Experience working in Security, Cryptography, or Authn & Authz
• Experience in TDD

Education and Training:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science