Senior Software Engineer

 The Microservices Enablement Team

Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their users’ experiences. With over 20,000 customers, 8000+ app integrations, and well over a billion registered users, we are only getting started. Okta is a US Federal government vendor with FedRAMP High and IL4 compliance.

Okta’s Microservices Enablement team is responsible for building the foundation that powers Okta’s evolution from a monolithic architecture to a scalable, resilient microservices ecosystem. We design and develop frameworks, services, and infrastructure that enable product teams to build, deploy, and operate microservices efficiently and safely.

The Senior Software Engineer Opportunity

Our scope includes core platform capabilities such as service bootstrapping frameworks, observability and tracing, inter-service communication (gRPC and eventing), libraries for metrics, rate limiting, and resilience, as well as service lifecycle tooling and governance.

We’re cloud-native by design, where scalability, reliability, and developer experience are first-class citizens. We partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to ensure that new services are secure, observable, cost-efficient, and easy to operate - from local development through global production scale.

With Okta’s mantra of “Always On!”, there’s never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of engineers who are passionate about building robust platforms, enabling others, and shaping the future of Okta’s service architecture.

What you’ll be doing 

• Work with engineering teams across Okta to design, build, and evolve the Microservices Platform - enabling Okta teams to develop, deploy, and operate microservices efficiently and safely.
• Design and implement shared frameworks, SDKs, and libraries that standardize service-to-service communication, observability, configuration, rate limiting, and resilience.
• Build and maintain tooling for microservice bootstrapping, CI/CD templates, terraform templates, and developer experience workflows that accelerate service creation and onboarding.
• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for scalable, repeatable provisioning of compute, networking, and storage using Terraform and AWS-native services.
• Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines using tools such as Spinnaker, ArgoCD, or equivalent, ensuring reliable, auditable, and scalable deployment workflows for hundreds of microservices.
• Develop frameworks and tooling for monitoring, tracing, and metrics collection, empowering teams to build observable and operable services.
• Diagnose and resolve system performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with architects, product engineers, and operations teams to define and evolve Okta’s next-generation microservices ecosystem.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years of experience designing and building backend systems or developer platforms in distributed, cloud-native environments.
• Familiarity with microservice architectures - including API design, service discovery, configuration management, and observability practices.
• Strong programming experience in Java or similar language.
• Nice to have - Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider, including infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Nice to have - Experience with continuous delivery platforms (e.g. Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Nice to have - Experience with Kubernetes (EKS or GKE) and modern CI/CD practices for containerized workloads
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Additional requirements:

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.  As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

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