Staff Software Engineer, API Foundations

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

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.

What You’ll Be Doing

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.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

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 and 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.

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

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!

Amazing Benefits Making Social Impact Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging 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!