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 API Foundations team was established to streamline and bring consistency to how we build customer facing APIs for Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC). The team aims to standardize our architecture and provide a robust set of building blocks to help enhance the internal and external developer experience when consuming, building and contributing to our APIs.
In addition to providing guidance and building blocks, the team is responsible for development and stewardship of our customer facing Management API.
This team’s work contributes to the Developer journey within Auth0 by Okta, specially on the onboarding and management phases, facilitating the discovery and usage of our APIs for managing their Auth0 resources.
Be a part of a collaborative and agile team, interfacing with the product managers and other teams to support shared services
Provide technical direction to the team, detecting technical improvement opportunities and taking action to design and implement them
Mentor and coach other engineers to support their growth and bring them along
Design and develop features, APIs, and fixes to handle our current and future scale with a strong bias towards security
Support existing services by ensuring that security issues and dependency updates are addressed in a timely manner
Support other teams by reviewing changes to shared services and addressing bugs
Work using NodeJS (JavaScript/TypeScript), MongoDB, and PostgreSQL on AWS and Azure.
Participate in our on-call rotations for troubleshooting production issues
8+ years of experience in a software engineering role
Excellent communication skills
A passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, scalable, and secure.
Interested in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Deep understanding of JavaScript / TypeScript and building performant and secure RESTFul APIs using NodeJS
Hands on experience in designing, maintaining, modernizing and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and driving the technical vision for them.
Thrive in a highly collaborative, fully remote, and distributed culture
Demonstrate ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and a customer-focused attitude
Strong experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing and designing testing strategies.
Experience creating and maintaining public APIs
Experience working with a fully distributed, remote team
Existing knowledge of security engineering and application security
Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and application layers
Experience solving problems at scale
What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
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/.
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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.
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