Staff Software Engineer

About the team
As part of our vision to Free Everyone to Safely Connect to any Technology, Okta is investing to help B2B / Enterprise SaaS companies engage with their customers by leveraging the Okta Integration Network (OIN) platform. 
This involves creation, activation and upgrades of developer-focused long-lived sandbox tenants with special incentives & platform to discover, build, test and submit their apps’ integrations with Okta across a variety of identity centric capabilities. We are constantly thinking about fostering network effects on the existing OIN Platform by designing for reach, scale and extensibility. 
Join us in building the next generation of a streamlined Partner journey within Okta, as we increase its footprint to even broader capabilities. 

About the Role
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join an innovative and fast moving full-stack team to build a new set of developer-facing products to achieve this mission. We welcome personalities that are self-driven, think outside-the-box, take pride in shipping high quality software and most importantly kind.

What you will be doing:

• Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity.
• Work with user experience designers and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies.
• Develop secure and reusable components to enable other teams to easily implement UIs with rich and consistent look and feel.
• Develop APIs and SDKs that developers love. The target audience for this team’s roadmap is the developers working at the B2B Enterprise SaaS companies.
• Have a high bar for security, test-driven development, design reviews and code reviews while harboring a sense of urgency.
• Define long-term observability and reliability metrics for the systems/features that they own.  
   

What you bring to the Team:

•  Have 8-12 years of software development experience
• Proficient in at least one of the backend languages and frameworks - Java, C#, Typescript (NodeJS).
• Comfortable in React or similar front-end UI stack (Angular, Vue); if not comfortable yet, you are willing to learn.
• Demonstrable knowledge of HTTP fundamentals with strong API Design skills.
• Have experience working with at least one of the database technologies - MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with at least one cloud-native system of scale (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with distributed systems patterns including caching, asynchronous processing etc. 
• Track record of delivering work incrementally to get feedback and iterating over solutions.
• Have an infectious enthusiasm and bring the right attitude to the team regarding ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.
• Excellent written communication skills, bringing structure to ambiguous concepts, and driving closure on them methodically using first principles.
• Possess or have interest in developing a strong product sense.

Bonus Points:
Have built fault-tolerant & scalable integrations to third-party services.

NOTE:  This is onsite/hybrid position located in, Bengaluru, RMZ Ecoworld, Bellandur

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