Senior Engineer, Core Frontier: Secure Identity at Scale

Okta Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 16,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Amazing benefits

Social impact

Talent & community

Job summary

Okta is hiring a Senior Engineer for the Core Frontier team in Bengaluru. You will drive critical authentication features, scale distributed systems, and shape the engineering culture across global teams. You’ll work primarily with Node.js and TypeScript, with data in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis, across AWS and Azure clouds.

The role emphasizes security, reliability, and high performance, with collaboration across product, security, architecture, design, and QA. IAM knowledge is valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in designing and building services with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript).
• Experience creating and maintaining public and secure APIs, as well as front ends.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure).
• Strong testing experience across unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Product-minded with customer-centric solution thinking.

Responsibilities

• Be a founding engineer of this new team in Bengaluru, setting the technical bar and engineering culture for our growing presence in the region.
• Build and design innovative features that extend the capabilities of Auth0’s platform.
• Contribute to the strategic technical quality, security, reliability, and scalability of our systems.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment with Product, Security, Design, Architecture and QA.
• Deepen expertise in identity, security, and cloud technologies while working on distributed systems at scale.
• Mentor and be mentored by engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure services remain healthy and reliable.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Cloud AWS

Azure

APIs

Testing

On-call

Mentoring

Engineering culture

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Okta is hiring a Senior Engineer for the Core Frontier team in Bengaluru. You will drive critical authentication features, scale distributed systems, and shape the engineering culture across global teams. You’ll work primarily with Node.js and TypeScript, with data in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis, across AWS and Azure clouds.

The role emphasizes security, reliability, and high performance, with collaboration across product, security, architecture, design, and QA. IAM knowledge is valued.