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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.\nThis is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.\nStaff Software Engineer - Backend\nGet to Know Okta\nOkta 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.\nAt Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. 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By deeply integrating with existing security infrastructure, ITP relentlessly analyzes user behavior and system data to proactively hunt down and neutralize risks before they impact our customers.\n Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR): Detecting sophisticated credential compromise, privilege escalation, and lateral movement with speed and automated response capabilities.\nAs we expand our engineering footprint in India, you will be a foundational member of a high-impact team driving architectural scale, technical innovation, and product synergy across this critical pillar.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nAs a Staff Software Engineer within the team, you will play a pivotal architectural and hands-on role in scaling our foundational platforms and web applications, with a primary emphasis on backend architecture and distributed services. You will partner closely with distributed teams to deliver robust, high-performance security solutions.\nKey Responsibilities:\nLead, design, architect, and build high-quality, scalable software by enforcing best practices around software engineering, architecture, and processes\nRaise the bar on engineering excellence by improving standard methodologies, producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring\nCollaborate with product and R&D engineers to translate product requirements into technical solutions.\nIdentifying and resolving technical issues and performance bottlenecks.\nStaying up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve our products.\nBe a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing\nWhat You’ll Bring to the Role\nExperience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining complex, enterprise-grade distributed systems in high-growth environments.\nBackend Expertise: 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing backend services using Python.\nArchitectural Mastery: Deep knowledge of backend architecture, pipeline design, and data persistence patterns.\nDatabase & Storage Systems: Practical experience working with relational databases as well as NoSQL/caching stores.\nSystem Principles: Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and scalable software design patterns.\nCollaboration & Mindset: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, paired with strong communication abilities to collaborate across distributed, global engineering teams.\n Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).\nExtra Credit If You Have Experience In\nModern cloud platforms (particularly AWS) and container orchestration.\nIdentity and security domains (IAM, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, posture management, threat detection, or cloud security).P25711_3566362\n\nThe Okta Experience\nSupporting Your Well-Being \nDriving Social Impact \nDeveloping Talent and Fostering Connection + Community\nWe are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.\nOkta 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.\nIf reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.\nNotice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. 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