Join Okta as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance and manage services for identity and access policies on a scalable platform.
Posted by employer 15 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 6 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 6 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Work on Onboarding and Lifecycle Management Platform
- Conduct code reviews and performance tuning
- Implement comprehensive test coverage
- Troubleshoot customer issues
- Design and implement scalable software components
Must have
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience with object-oriented languages, e.g. Java
- Experience with data stores, e.g. relational databases
- Experience with Directory services: Active Directory, LDAP
- Experience with RESTful APIs
Nice to have
- Experience with server-side technologies including caching
- Experience in TDD
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols
- Experience with Microsoft Azure management APIs
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer at Okta focuses on enhancing the Onboarding and Lifecycle Management Platform by developing services for identity and access policy management. Key skills include proficiency in object-oriented programming, experience with relational databases, and familiarity with identity management protocols. This position is suited for candidates with over five years of software development experience, particularly those who have worked on scalable systems. Okta emphasizes a collaborative environment, engaging cross-functional teams to drive innovation in identity security.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze November 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page November 5, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 5 other locations at Okta: Bengaluru, India, Bengaluru, India, Bengaluru, India, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Java appears in 35.9% of 92 comparable senior backend roles in India; LDAP appears in 1.1% of 92 comparable senior backend roles in India.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Bengaluru, India.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Okta is hiring for this position in Bengaluru, India.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Active Directory, Java, LDAP, RESTful APIs.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer role at Okta.
From the original posting
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Company Description:
Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,950 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers
Position Description:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work on our Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team with focus on enhancing and managing services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies i.e., users, groups, roles, entitlements, etc. These features allow customers the flexibility to link and enhance their business processes with Okta’s identity management product. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale.
The ideal candidate will be naturally curious and has experience building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
- Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
- Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for broad features
- Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues
- Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX teams) to develop connectors to on-prem and cloud apps
- Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
- Design and implement core, high-performance, scalable software components
- Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance.
- Conduct code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
- Troubleshooting and support for customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.)
Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- 5+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission- critical software
- Experience with object-oriented languages, e.g. Java
- Experience with data stores, e.g. relational databases
- Experience with one or more of the following Directory services: Active Directory, LDAP
- Experience with RESTful APIs
- Ability to debug
- Experience working with a system of scale
Nice to haves:
- Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading
- Experience in TDD
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM
- Microsoft Azure management APIs, ADFS, Office 365 or Microsoft’s Directory Synchronization Tool , Active Directory
Education and Training:
- B.S. Computer Science or related field
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