Okta Hiring --> Staff Software Engineer (Backend Java + Security domain)

Preferred qualification and abilities

- 8+ years of development experience in designing and implementing software systems in Java, building highly reliable and mission-critical software. - 3+ years of work experience in designing and implementing security solutions for applications and distributed systems. - Work experience and excellent understanding in mitigating OWASP Top 10 attacks on applications, Application Security, Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization using Role-Based and Attribute-Based access controls. - Strong understanding of concepts such as Test-Driven development, Secure SDLC, Secure code reviews and the ability to identify and mitigate threat vectors and vulnerabilities in code and infrastructure. - Good understanding and experience in using cloud service providers such as AWS and GCP. - Developing and maintaining technical documentation such as cookbooks, design and architecture docs. - Troubleshooting and fixing production issues to ensure reliability, security and performance. - Work experience in using RDBMS like MySQL,



good grasp of concepts such as replication and clustering along with familiarity in data stores such as Redis and Elasticsearch. - Excellent grasp of software engineering principles coupled with solid written and verbal communication skills. - B.S or M.S in Computer Science or related fields.

Responsibilities

- Act as a liaison between the engineering and security org to develop innovative requirements for the security roadmap. - Evangelize security best practices across the engineering org. - Research, design, implement and own security oriented frameworks and features with the common goal of protecting Okta's customers. - Routinely participate in cross-vertical code reviews with emphasis on Security. - Break down complex problems into sub-tasks while prototyping rapidly and iteratively contributing to security initiatives using agile practices. - Coach and mentor junior engineers in the team.

Please reach out to [email protected] (Hybrid_Bangalore)

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Java + Security domain) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Okta
📍 Bengaluru