Staff Software Engineer, Java Spring (Backend) at Okta

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Java Staff Software Engineer, Azure Integrations Team

We are looking for dynamic and collaborative software engineers to join the Azure Integrations team that focuses on integrations with Microsoft's Azure AD Identity Platform (Entra ID, MSGraph, etc). This is a hybrid role based out of our Bangalore office.

The Staff Software Engineer Opportunity

We are looking for experienced Staff level engineers that are passionate about building large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced agile environment. The ideal candidate will share our passion and pride in the simple elegance and usability of our solution and will join an engineering team that strongly believes in writing secure and high performance code with automated testing and an iterative process to build high-quality next generation enterprise software.

What you’ll be doing

Understand our Azure Integrations codebase and development process: Jira, Technical Designs, Code Review, Testing, and Deployment.

Analyze, refine and shape requirements with product management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity.

Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues

Work with various stakeholders to scope and plan engineering efforts to ensure project and feature launch success. Help drive roadmap activities with the other engineering leads.

Design and implement high-performance distributed scalable and fault-tolerant software components.

Actively participate and drive code quality improvements in PR reviews for the team

Drive the team’s performance culture and mentor more junior team members

Collaborate across a cross-functional team consisting of QA, Product Management, Technical Support, Documentation, TPM and UX to create an extensible platform.

Own features and/or systems and define their long-term health and observability and reliability metrics.

What you’ll bring to the role

5+ years of software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software.

Experience working with systems of scale ranging from monolithic applications to microservices.

Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading. We use Java, Spring, Hibernate, Redis.

Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds

Nice to have:

experience working with Microsoft’s Graph APIs - a RESTful web API that enables access Microsoft Cloud service resources, especially identity APIs

experience with modern front end development such as ReactJS

Education and Training: B.S., MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

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Staff Software Engineer, Java Spring (Backend)

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