Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer – Okta for Developers

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box – we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things – secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their users’ experiences. With over 20,000 customers, 8,000+ app integrations, and well over a billion registered users, we are only getting started.

Okta is a US Federal government vendor with FedRAMP High and IL4 compliance.

Okta’s Microservices Enablement team is responsible for building the foundation that powers Okta’s evolution from a monolithic architecture to a scalable, resilient microservices ecosystem. We design and develop frameworks, services, and infrastructure that enable product teams to build, deploy, and operate microservices efficiently and safely.

Our scope includes core platform capabilities such as service bootstrapping frameworks, observability and tracing, inter-service communication (gRPC and eventing), libraries for metrics, rate limiting, and resilience, as well as service lifecycle tooling and governance. We’re cloud-native by design, where scalability, reliability, and developer experience are first-class citizens. We partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to ensure that new services are secure, observable, cost-efficient, and easy to operate – from local development through global production scale.

• Work with engineering teams across Okta to design, build, and evolve the Microservices Platform – enabling Okta teams to develop, deploy, and operate microservices efficiently and safely.
• Design and implement shared frameworks, SDKs, and libraries that standardize service-to-service communication, observability, configuration, rate limiting, and resilience.
• Build and maintain tooling for microservice bootstrapping, CI/CD templates, Terraform templates, and developer experience workflows that accelerate service creation and onboarding.
• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for scalable, repeatable provisioning of compute, networking, and storage using Terraform and AWS-native services.
• Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines using tools such as Spinnaker, ArgoCD, or equivalent, ensuring reliable, auditable, and scalable deployment workflows for hundreds of microservices.
• Develop frameworks and tooling for monitoring, tracing, and metrics collection, empowering teams to build observable and operable services.
• Diagnose and resolve system performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with architects, product engineers, and operations teams to define and evolve Okta’s next-generation microservices ecosystem.

• 5+ years of experience designing and building backend systems or developer platforms in distributed, cloud-native environments.
• Familiarity with microservice architectures – including API design, service discovery, configuration management, and observability practices.
• Strong programming experience in Java or similar language.
• Nice to have – Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider, including infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Nice to have – Experience with continuous delivery platforms (e.g., Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions).
• Nice to…