--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer - SRE at Okta' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-sre-okta-bengaluru-3140aq375jtw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Senior Software Engineer - SRE at Okta - **Company:** Okta - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Posted:** 2026-10-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://www.okta.com/company/careers/opportunity/8263916?gh_jid=8263916 ## Job description Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. 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. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Senior Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform ## About the Team The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform team solves challenges and enables: - Streaming analytics - Interactive end-user reporting - Data and ML platform for Okta to scale - Telemetry of our products and data Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever. ## About the Position This is an opportunity for experienced Software Reliability Engineers to join our fast growing Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake. We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who can help design and own the building, deploying and optimizing the streaming infrastructure. This project has a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have a sizable impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems. Job Duties and Responsibilities: - Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components - Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation - Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning - Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization - Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack - Participate in the on-call rotation, and incident management Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - 5+ years of industry experience - 2+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java - Experience developing Kubernetes based services - Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including - Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka - Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam - Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Databricks, Hadoop - Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos - Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems - Excellent grasp of software engineering principles - Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management - Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management ## Nice to have - Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure - Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services - Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems. - Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop #LI-Hybrid #P25925_3575672 The Okta Experience - [Supporting Your Well-Being](http://rewards.okta.com) - [Driving Social Impact](https://www.okta.com/company/okta-for-good/) - [Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community](https://www.okta.com/company/talent-connection-community/) We 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. Okta 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please [use this Form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EfiEYZrIyhA2X4Fijk0R3RKYOzNoS3wtvyM4nhbZnXE/edit) to request an accommodation. Notice 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. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please [click here](https://talent.okta.com/new-york-city-aedt-notice.html) to view our full NYC AEDT Notice. ## About Okta ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Okta is The World’s Identity Company™, providing cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions that securely connect people to technology, now extended to AI agents. - **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: OKTA) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2009 - **Founders**: Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management (IAM) - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (two-thirds of the Fortune 100, major government agencies), SMBs, and developer teams (via Auth0) - **Mission or purpose**: “Free everyone to safely use any technology.” ## Products & Services - **[Okta Workforce Identity](https://www.okta.com/)**: Cloud-based IAM for employees, contractors, and partners – includes single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), lifecycle management, and privileged access controls. (SaaS) - **[Okta Customer Identity (Auth0)](https://www.okta.com/)**: Developer-friendly platform for authenticating and authorizing users in consumer and SaaS applications. (SaaS/API) - **[Okta for AI Agents](https://www.okta.com/)**: A new offering that brings AI agents into the identity security fabric – enables discovery, onboarding, protection, and governance of machine identities. (SaaS) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources (publicly traded; refer to stock exchange data). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – Not publicly available in provided sources. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not detailed in provided materials; the company highlights that two-thirds of the Fortune 100 and thousands of organizations trust Okta [okta.com/company](https://www.okta.com/company/). - **Growth Signals**: Strong push into AI agent security; “Always secure. Always on.” commitment; global presence in 15 countries. ## Competitive Advantages - Trusted by the largest enterprises and governments – a deeply embedded identity standard. - Comprehensive platform covering both workforce and customer identity under one fabric. - Pioneering the identity framework for AI agents, creating a new moat in the machine-identity space. - **Okta Secure Identity Commitment (OSIC)** – a long-term pledge to lead against identity-based attacks, reinforcing reliability and transparency. ## Strategic Focus - Securing the “agentic enterprise” by extending identity governance to AI agents. - Continuous innovation in IAM to address emerging threats (phishing, AI-powered attacks). - Expanding the Auth0 developer ecosystem and deepening integrations with cloud platforms. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values-driven (“Love our customers,” “Always secure. Always on.,” “Build and own it,” “Drive what’s next”). Strong emphasis on security, ownership, and customer success [okta.com/company/careers](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/). - **Work model**: Hybrid and remote-friendly – listings show “US Remote,” “UK Remote,” and office locations in 15 countries (e.g., San Francisco, Toronto, London, Tokyo, Bengaluru) [okta.com/company/careers/job-listing](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/job-listing/). - **Perks**: Competitive salary, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), flexible PTO, professional development resources, and social impact programs (Okta for Good, 1% Pledge) [okta.com/company/careers](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/?gh_src=7j0um41). - **Engineering culture**: Teams build secure, reliable systems at scale; early career programs and a focus on AI identity security offer cutting-edge challenges. ## Sources 1. [okta.com](https://www.okta.com/) 2. [okta.com/company](https://www.okta.com/company/) 3. [okta.com/company/careers](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/) 4. [okta.com/company/careers (benefits)](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/?gh_src=7j0um41) 5. 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