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# Staff Software Engineer - Lifecycle Management at Okta

- **Company:** Okta
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2025-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://www.okta.com/company/careers/opportunity/6879868?gh_jid=6879868

## 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.

Staff Software Engineer, Life Cycle Management

Company Description:

Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,950 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers

Position Description:

The Okta platform provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to work on our Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team with focus on enhancing and managing services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies i.e., users, groups, roles, entitlements, etc. These features allow customers the flexibility to link and enhance their business processes with Okta’s identity management product. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale. The ideal candidate is someone who has experience building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
- Be a key contributor in the implementation of the LCM infrastructure
- Troubleshooting customer issues and debugging from logs (Splunk, Syslogs, etc.)
- Design & Implement features with functional and unit tests along with monitoring and alerts
- Conduct design & code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
- Quick prototyping to validate scale and performance
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to more junior engineers
- Interface with Architects, QA, Product Owners, Engineering Services, Tech Ops
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

- The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
- 8+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experiences with SCIM and Spring Boot.
- 5+ years of development experience building services, internal tools and frameworks
- 2+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar.
- Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures
- Experience with RESTful APIs and SOAP apis.
- Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
- Lead and mentor junior engineers.

Nice to haves:

- Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading.
- Experience in TDD.
- Experience with UI development or javascript frameworks
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM

Education and Training:

- B.S. Computer Science or related field

#LI-Hybrid P22369_3145359 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. [okta.com/company/careers/job-listing](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/job-listing/)

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