Staff Software Engineer - Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript)
Okta
Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 8+ years of professional software development experience required.
- Staff Software Engineer role within the new Core Frontier team, based in Bengaluru.
- Work with Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript), MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis on AWS and Azure.
- Amazing Benefits and flexible work environment.
- Opportunity to lead technical quality, security, reliability, and scalability for a global identity platform.
- Experience in Identity and Access Management is highly valued.
Role overview
Okta’s Auth0 is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the new Core Frontier team within the Core Identity organization. The role leads design, delivery, and technical quality of authentication and identity features, acting as an architectural bridge to ensure secure, high‑performance experiences for millions of daily logins, while shaping engineering culture in Bengaluru and collaborating globally.
Responsibilities
- Be a founding Staff member of this new team in Bengaluru, setting the technical bar and engineering culture for our growing presence in the region and working in collaboration with our global teams in Europe and North America.
- Lead the design and delivery of innovative features that extend the capabilities of Auth0’s platform to help our customers innovate around the world securely and delightfully.
- Take ownership of the strategic technical quality, security, reliability, and scalability of our systems. You'll drive architectural improvements and advocate for engineering best practices.
- Identify architectural gaps in our current "frontier" and advocate for long‑term improvements that benefit the entire Core Identity organization.
- Thrive in a highly collaborative and cross‑functional environment, working with talented engineers and partners across Product, Security, Design, Architecture and QA to deliver features that delight our customers and ensure a unified technical vision.
- Deepen or gain expertise in identity, security, and modern cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) while working on distributed systems at scale.
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to our culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Participate in an on‑call rotation to ensure our critical services remain healthy and reliable.
- Act as the architectural bridge, ensuring that complex internal logic translates into a polished, secure, and high‑performance experience that millions of developers and end‑users interact with every day.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, or equivalent.
- Proficiency in designing and building services with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript).
- Experience creating and maintaining public and secure APIs, as well as front ends.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- A strong commitment to quality, with experience in various testing strategies (e.g., unit, integration, end‑to‑end).
- A proven track record of driving technical alignment across multiple teams and mentoring senior‑level individual contributors.
- A product‑oriented mindset, with the ability to understand customer needs and work collaboratively to find effective solutions.
Nice to have
- Experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain.
- Knowledge of security engineering principles and application security best practices.
Benefits
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
- Flexibility and mobility in work location to suit individual needs
- Access to best tools, technology, and benefits to empower productivity
- Potential travel to an office location for in‑person onboarding
Additional details
- Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity 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 with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
- This is an opportunity to do career‑defining work.
- If you are too, let's talk.
- Auth0 is a developer‑friendly identity platform that simplifies authentication and authorization for applications. Designed by developers for developers, we make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world.
- Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier‑Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.
- 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.
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