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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 24 days Okta's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Okta's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Okta
- low 0 stale, 35 reposted of 320 open
- Hiring momentum
- 541 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Okta's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Okta.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity Administration team at Okta, you will develop, design, and maintain features for enterprise identity management. Your role involves taking ownership of feature areas, ensuring high-quality production-ready features, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions. You will also handle bug fixes and customer-reported issues while writing clean, maintainable code.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Okta as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang
- Deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing
- Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
- Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale
- Hands-on experience with AWS (Fargate, EC2, Lambda) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
- Strong proficiency with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD automation tools (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions)
Nice to have
- Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens for service-to-service communication
- Experience with Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog for monitoring and troubleshooting
- Familiarity with Kafka or SQS for handling cross-org asynchronous events
- Basic familiarity with React/JavaScript for backend integration
- Understanding of how to build and deploy services across isolated infrastructure units
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role involves significant responsibility with direct impact on enterprise identity management
- Vague details on team structure and specific technologies used
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Listed by Okta on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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