Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Developer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026. Okta scores A on the Alion truth index.
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
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Title: Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack), Lifecycle Management
Company Description:
Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,950 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers
Position Description:
The Okta platform provides lifecycle management services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.
We are looking for a full stack engineer to join our high caliber Lifecycle Management Engineering team. Your role will be to help us provide a world class experience to our customers. Okta's identity management group is focusing on identity stores and managing the lifecycle. Our platform manages users, groups and memberships, with stringent performance, reliability and scalability requirements. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale. The ideal candidate is someone who has experience building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure.
Job Duties And Responsibilities:
- Work with product & design teams to deliver world-class user experiences.
- Delight our customers by providing world class UX using our React-based design system.
- Understand our lifecycle management codebase and development process: Jira, Technical Designs, Code Review, Testing, and Deployment.
- Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
- Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues
- Conduct quality code reviews and automated testings
- Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for broad features
- As part of the ongoing development in the team, provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers
- Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and backend teams) to develop connectors to on-prem and cloud apps
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work
Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- 5+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission- critical software
- Expertise with frontend application development.
- Experience with object-oriented languages, e.g. Java and/or Golang.
- Solid understanding of Javascript and experience with modern Javascript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular).
- Experience with data stores, e.g. relational databases, graph DB, etc.
- Experience with RESTful APIs and gRPC
- Experience working with a system of scale.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading
- Experience in TDD
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, etc
- Experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
Education and Training:
- B.S. Computer Science or related field
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