Senior Software Engineer, Identity Administration

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## About the role Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that secures AI and enterprise identity. The Identity Governance (OIG) organization is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Identity Administration team, responsible for critical workflows that let employees request, approve, and gain access to resources at scale. ## What you'll do - Take end‑to‑end ownership of feature areas, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post‑launch monitoring. - Design, build, and ship high‑quality, production‑ready features across the OIG system with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance. - Quickly deliver bug fixes and address customer‑reported issues. - Write clean, well‑tested, maintainable code and uphold high engineering standards. - Partner with Product, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to scope development and deployment work. ## Required qualifications - 5+ years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang, with deep understanding of multi‑threading and asynchronous processing. - Experience building high‑performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services. - Strong background with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale. - Hands‑on experience with AWS (Fargate, EC2, Lambda) and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform). - Proficiency with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD automation tools (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions). ## Nice to haves - Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens for service‑to‑service communication. - Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog. - Familiarity with event streaming or messaging systems like Kafka or SQS. ## Why join Okta You will work on enterprise‑grade software that millions of users depend on, shaping how thousands of organizations manage access governance at scale. The role offers the chance to solve genuinely hard technical challenges, collaborate across product and design, and make an impact on a mission‑critical product.

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