Staff Software Engineer - Java( Backend Architect )

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:

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.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to work on our Advanced Apps team with focus on enhancing and managing connectors to SaaS applications e.g., Workday, Salesforce, GCP, AWS, etc. They will work closely with the Lifecycle Management (LCM) team that provides a platform for automating Joiner, Mover, Leaver processes. The Connectors allow customers the flexibility to Import and Provision identity and entitlements to their SaaS applications. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our connectors to match application’s features and for scale.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
• Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX teams) to understand application specific protocols and build connectors
• Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management.
• Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance.
• Design & Implement features with functional and unit tests along with monitoring and alerts
• Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
• Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for application specific features
• Troubleshooting and support for  customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.) 
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to more junior engineers

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
• 8+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experiences with SCIM and Spring Boot.
• 5+ years of development experience building services, internal tools and frameworks
• 2+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures
• Experience with RESTful APIs and SOAP apis.
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
• Lead and mentor junior engineers.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading.
• Experience in TDD.
• Experience with UI development or javascript frameworks
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM

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