Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity 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.
Responsibilities
- Leverage cutting‑edge AI pair‑programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise‑grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products.
- Prove expertise leveraging AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC) while maintaining high code quality.
- Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud‑based privileged access management solutions.
- Design, build, and maintain end‑to‑end features using modern JavaScript and cloud‑native backend technologies.
- Lead technical design for key initiatives, driving quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Build reusable and performant UI components for a best‑in‑class no‑code builder experience.
- Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new features and common platform components.
- Evaluate existing systems to evolve them for specialized circumstances to support Okta's future business needs.
- Conduct thorough design and code reviews, ensuring that proposed solutions account for scalability, redundancy, and multi‑tenancy.
- Uphold high programming standards by consistently writing comprehensive unit and functional tests.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks the team owns.
- Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
- Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security, and operations engineers.
Qualifications
- Immense passion for doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth.
- Extensive experience developing cloud‑based software security products.
- Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging large‑scale cloud deployments in the enterprise world.
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (master's preferred).
- 9+ years of extensive programming experience in a modern language such as Go, Java, or C++ (Go preferred but not mandatory).
- Experience with modern front‑end JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, etc.
- 4+ years of experience with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database systems, and experience designing and querying databases with optimization in mind.
- Demonstrated experience working with REST and a thorough understanding of its fundamentals.
- Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker.
- Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization.
- Adherence to best software engineering principles.
- Familiarity with Agile software development processes.
- Previous experience at security firms is a huge plus.
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