Is the Senior Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management 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, Lifecycle Management 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, Lifecycle Management role at Okta.

Senior Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management at Okta

Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior Software Engineer for Lifecycle Management at Okta, the individual will focus on enhancing and managing services related to identity and access policies, ensuring seamless integration with the company's identity management product. Key skills include proficiency in object-oriented programming, experience with relational databases, and familiarity with directory services and RESTful APIs. This position is suited for seasoned engineers with a strong background in building scalable software systems, particularly those who thrive in collaborative environments. Okta emphasizes a culture of innovation and connection, fostering a supportive community across its global offices.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 23, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page September 23, 2026.
Java appears in 42.5% of 87 comparable senior backend roles in India; RESTful APIs appears in 1.1% of 87 comparable senior backend roles in India.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management 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, Lifecycle Management 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, Lifecycle Management role at Okta.

From the original posting

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Title: Senior Software Engineer, Lifecycle Management

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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