Software Architect, Lifecycle Management

Identity 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...

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The Okta platform provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.

Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
Lead the architectural design and implementation of new features and services, with a focus on scalability, performance, and security.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define the technical strategy and lead the prototyping of software components.
Directly oversee and coordinate complex technical initiatives involving 20+ engineers, ensuring alignment across disparate sub-teams
Drive a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement, with a focus on robust testing, monitoring, and operational excellence.
Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies in identity, security, and distributed systems.
Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work.

The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
15+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experience with Hibernate and Spring Boot
A deep understanding of design patterns, scalability patterns, security engineering, and object-oriented principles.
4+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures.
Experience working with relational databases, ideally MySQL, PostgreSQL or GraphDB
Strong communication skills and the ability to work across functions, distributed teams.
Lead and mentor junior engineers
Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading.
Experience with security best practices and threat modeling
Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM
B.E. Computer Science or equivalent
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