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 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.

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.

The Okta Integration Network Team

As part of our vision to Free Everyone to Safely Connect to any Technology, Okta is investing to help B2B / Enterprise SaaS companies engage with their customers by leveraging the Okta Integration Network (OIN) platform.

The Senior Software Engineer Opportunity

This involves creation, activation and upgrades of developer-focused long-lived sandbox tenants with special incentives & platform to discover, build, test and submit their apps’ integrations with Okta across a variety of identity centric capabilities. We are constantly thinking about fostering network effects on the existing OIN Platform by designing for reach, scale and extensibility.

Join us in building the next generation of a streamlined Partner journey within Okta, as we increase its footprint to even broader capabilities.

What You’ll Be Doing

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join an innovative and fast moving full-stack team to build a new set of developer-facing products to achieve this mission. We welcome personalities that are self-driven, think outside-the-box, take pride in shipping high quality software and most importantly kind.

• Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity.
• Work with user experience designers and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies.
• Develop secure and reusable components to enable other teams to easily implement UIs with rich and consistent look and feel.
• Develop APIs and SDKs that developers love. The target audience for this team’s roadmap is the developers working at the B2B Enterprise SaaS companies.
• Have a high bar for security, test-driven development, design reviews and code reviews while harboring a sense of urgency.
• Define long-term observability and reliability metrics for the systems/features that they own.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• 5+ years experience with React, Angular or Backbone (JavaScript MVC frameworks) along with a deep understanding of the JavaScript language
• Experience shipping user interfaces for production-grade applications in an agile, product oriented environment
• Strong experience with cross browser compatibility and optimization techniques
• Strong understanding of debugging scalable, high performance web applications built with reusability and "componentization" in mind
• Understanding of web security attacks and prevention
• Prior experience with consuming and/or designing REST APIs
• Have experience working with at least one of the database technologies - MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with at least one cloud-native system of scale (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Track record of delivering work incrementally to get feedback and iterating over solutions.
• Have an infectious enthusiasm and bring the right attitude to the team regarding ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

• Have built fault-tolerant & scalable integrations to third-party services.