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 flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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.

Software Engineer 2 - Authentication Platform

About 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.



Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management platform, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta, organizations can manage access across any application, person or device. Whether the people are employees, or partners or the applications are in the cloud, on premises or on a mobile device, Okta helps organizations become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance.

About the team:

The Access Management group drives billions of authentications every month. The group builds and supports single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, and threat protection technologies. Our Access Management service runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform with 99.99% availability.



We are looking for an experienced and highly technical software engineer to join the Authentication Platform team. Operating under the larger Access Management group, this team is responsible for building out the authentication pipeline for the Okta Identity Engine, this platform provides the core orchestration building blocks to create a world class authentication experience. We are looking for smart, innovative and passionate engineers to join the team.

About the role

You will share our passion and great pride in elegant solutions and will join an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for scale, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative process to build high-quality next-generation enterprise software. Identity is deeply important and providing a platform for customers to secure their applications is one of your passions.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Design, implement, review and troubleshoot highly scalable software Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management Work with engineering management to scope and plan engineering efforts Collaborate with QA, Product Management, Technical Support, Documentation and UX team

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

2+ years of backend software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software Experience with Object-Oriented Languages like Java and C# 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, Federation, SSO, etc.

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

Amazing Benefits Making Social Impact Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community 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/.



Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.



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.




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