Principal Software Engineer - Okta

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Job Title

Principal Software Engineer

Job Location

Bengaluru, India

Job Listing URL

https://www.okta.com/company/careers/opportunity/6399053?gh_jid=6399053

Job Description

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.

About the team
As part of our vision to Free Everyone to Safely Connect to any Technology, Okta is investing to help B2B / Enterprise SaaS companies engage with their customers by leveraging the Okta Integration Network (OIN) platform.
This involves creation, activation and upgrades of developer-focused long-lived sandbox tenants with special incentives & platform to discover, build, test and submit their apps’ integrations with Okta across a variety of identity centric capabilities. We are constantly thinking about fostering network effects on the existing OIN Platform by designing for reach, scale and extensibility.
Join us in building the next generation of a streamlined Partner journey within Okta, as we increase its footprint to even broader capabilities.

About the Role
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join an innovative and fast moving full-stack team to build a new set of developer-facing products to achieve this mission. We welcome personalities that are self-driven, think outside-the-box, take pride in shipping high quality software and most importantly kind.

What you will be doing:

Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity.
Work with user experience designers and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies.
Develop secure and reusable components to enable other teams to easily implement UIs with rich and consistent look and feel.
Develop APIs and SDKs that developers love. The target audience for this team’s roadmap is the developers working at the B2B Enterprise SaaS companies.
Have a high bar for security, test-driven development, design reviews and code reviews while harboring a sense of urgency.
Define long-term observability and reliability metrics for the systems/features that they own.

What you bring to the Team:

Have 12+ years of software development experience.
Proficient in at least one of the backend languages and frameworks - Java, C#, Typescript (NodeJS).
Comfortable in React or similar front-end UI stack (Angular, Vue); if not comfortable yet, you are willing to learn.
Demonstrable knowledge of HTTP fundamentals with strong API Design skills.
Have experience working with at least one of the database technologies - MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL.
Experience working with at least one cloud-native system of scale (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Experience with distributed systems patterns including caching, asynchronous processing etc.
Track record of delivering work incrementally to get feedback and iterating over solutions.
Have an infectious enthusiasm and bring the right attitude to the team regarding ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.
Excellent written communication skills, bringing structure to ambiguous concepts, and driving closure on them methodically using first principles.
Possess or have interest in developing a strong product sense.

Bonus Points:
Have built fault-tolerant & scalable integrations to third-party services.

#LI-Hybrid

What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!

Amazing Benefits
Making Social Impact
Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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