Senior Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management

Okta
Bengaluru, India
On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience building scalable identity management systems and working with cloud infrastructure.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years of experience in building mission-critical systems and a background in identity and access management protocols
    — “5+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission- critical software”
  • Individuals who have worked with RESTful APIs and directory services like Active Directory or LDAP
    — “Experience with data stores, e.g. relational databases”
  • Professionals with a strong background in cloud infrastructure and scalable system design
    — “Experience building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure”

Things to consider

  • The role may require in-office presence due to the immersive onboarding process
    — “immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact”
  • The position demands handling customer-reported issues and debugging from logs
    — “Troubleshooting and support for customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.)”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in designing high-performance, scalable components for enterprise systems
    — “Design and implement core, high-performance, scalable software components”
  • Demonstrate your ability to interface with cross-functional teams and manage connectors for on-prem and cloud apps
    — “Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX teams) to develop connectors to on-prem and cloud apps”
  • Showcase your hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and identity protocols such as OAuth or SAML
    — “Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • enhancing and managing services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies
  • building and maintaining scalable software components
Typical background
5+ years of software development experienceexperience with object-oriented languages

Skills & requirements

Required

JavaRestful ApisData StoresDirectory ServicesActive DirectoryLdapDebuggingPerformance TuningCode ReviewsTesting

Preferred

Server-side TechnologiesCachingAsynchronous ProcessingMulti-threadingTddIdentity And Access ManagementOAuthOpenid Connect

Stack & domain

JavaRestful ApisActive DirectoryLDAPSplunkSyslogsCachingAsynchronous ProcessingMulti-threadingTDDOAuthOpenid ConnectProblem-solvingTeamworkCommunicationDebuggingSoftware EngineeringCloud InfrastructureIdentity Management

About the role

Original posting from Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

Title: Senior Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management

Company Description:

Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,950 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers

Position Description:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work on our Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team with focus on enhancing and managing services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies i.e., users, groups, roles, entitlements, etc. These features allow customers the flexibility to link and enhance their business processes with Okta’s identity management product. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale.

The ideal candidate will be naturally curious and has experience building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation

Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning

Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for broad features

Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues

Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX teams) to develop connectors to on-prem and cloud apps

Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management

Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work

Design and implement core, high-performance, scalable software components

Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance.

Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning

Troubleshooting and support for  customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.) 

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

5+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission- critical software

Experience with object-oriented languages, e.g. Java

Experience with data stores, e.g. relational databases

Experience with one or more of the following Directory services: Active Directory, LDAP

Experience with RESTful APIs

Ability to debug

Experience working with a system of scale

Nice to haves:

Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading

Experience in TDD

Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM

Microsoft Azure management APIs, ADFS, Office 365 or Microsoft’s Directory Synchronization Tool , Active Directory

 Education and Training:

B.S. Computer Science or related field

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Source: Okta careers

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