Staff Software Engineer
Okta
Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 2 months ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 8+ years of software development experience required.
- Use of AI coding assistants to accelerate development while ensuring security.
- Flexible hybrid work model (work from office or home).
- Experience with NodeJS/JavaScript/TypeScript APIs is mandatory.
- Opportunity to work on authentication platform used across AI, mobile, and web applications.
Role overview
Okta’s Auth0 B2C Authentication domain provides a simple, secure, standards‑compliant and delightful authentication experience for both end users and developers. The team builds and evolves this platform using NodeJS, React, Go, Swift, Java/Kotlin, PostgreSQL and MongoDB on AWS and Azure, and seeks an engineer who leverages AI coding assistants to accelerate development while maintaining strict security standards.
Responsibilities
- Be a part of a fast‑paced, agile team comprising engineers, a product manager and designer.
- Design and develop features, APIs and fixes to handle current and future scale.
- Act as a technical steward who views the codebase as your own product.
- Proactively determine what is needed to make a project successful without waiting for perfect instructions.
- Help customers have an awesome experience with our products.
- Collaborate with the support team for customer questions.
- Participate in on‑call rotations for troubleshooting production issues.
- Lead team discussions, mentor other engineers to become senior, and improve the team’s productivity.
- Leverage AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle without compromising security.
- Use LLMs for rapid prototyping, boilerplate generation, and complex refactoring.
- Audit, debug, and secure AI‑generated code to ensure it meets strict authentication standards.
- Generate comprehensive unit tests, document systems, and simulate edge‑case scenarios in authentication flows using AI.
- Maintain technical integrity, architectural evolution, and long‑term scalability of the core product.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience creating public or internal APIs using NodeJS, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL document databases (MongoDB) in a production environment.
- Experience with mobile CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
- Autonomous with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Attention to detail and a focus on user experience.
- Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, remote‑friendly environment.
Nice to have
- Experience building APIs for mobile apps and SDKs.
- 1+ years of experience in the identity and access management (IAM) domain.
- Experience with GoLang and Terraform.
- Experience with front‑end frameworks such as ReactJS or VueJS.
- Deep understanding of the NodeJS event loop.
- Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tools (e.g., Fastlane, Gradle, Snyk, or Terraform).
Benefits
- Flexible work environment – work from office or home regardless of location (Hybrid).
- Flexible benefits and collaborative work experiences.
- Support for employee well‑being.
- Opportunities to drive social impact.
- Talent development and fostering connection + community.
- Immersive, in‑person onboarding experience designed to accelerate impact.
- Remote‑friendly, highly collaborative culture.
Additional details
- Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human, is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
- Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral infrastructure enabling organizations to safely embrace the 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 with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
- This is an opportunity to do career‑defining work.
- Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Okta invests in the best technologies and provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments/experiences.
- Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) as defined by NYC Local Law 144.
- Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees regarding AEDT usage.
- Posting ID: # P24571.