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Staff Software Engineer, Identity Administration

Okta · Bengaluru, India

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
81 days
Okta's roles stay open a median of 103 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Okta's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Okta
high
320 stale, 35 reposted of 320 open
Hiring momentum
109 roles opened in the last 90 days
↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-11-14

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 Staff Software Engineer on the Identity Administration team at Okta, you will develop, design, and maintain critical features for enterprise identity management. Your role involves end-to-end ownership of feature areas, ensuring high-quality, production-ready code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions. You will also address customer-reported issues and contribute to the overall evolution of the product.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
4/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
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

  • 7+ years of experience with Java (Spring/Dropwizard) and/or Golang
  • Deep understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous processing
  • Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT tokens for service-to-service communication
  • Experience building high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
  • In-depth knowledge in distributed systems / microservices architectures
  • Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis)

Nice to have

  • Experience with Splunk, SignalFX, or Datadog for monitoring and troubleshooting production issues
  • Familiarity with Kafka or SQS for handling cross-org asynchronous events
  • Basic familiarity with React/JavaScript to help integrate backend services
  • Understanding of how to build and deploy services across isolated infrastructure units

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Role involves significant responsibility and ownership
  • Focus on enterprise-grade software with millions of users
  • Technical challenges described as genuinely hard

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Listed by Okta on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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