Senior Java Engineer (Design & DSA)

Role overview

Senior Java Engineer (Design & DSA) at Okta

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling highly reliable, production-grade applications.
• Java Expertise: Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming, with extensive experience in Java and the Spring Boot framework.
• Distributed Systems: Solid experience with distributed system patterns, asynchronous job processing, and event-driven architectures (essential for bulk restore operations).
• Data Management: Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., MySQL ) and caching strategies (e.g., Redis ) to manage state and high-throughput data snapshots.
• API Design: Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining robust RESTful APIs for enterprise integration.
• Problem Solving & Ownership: Proven track record of independently breaking down ambiguous requirements into clean, scalable software designs.
• Nice to Haves Familiarity with Identity and Access Management (IAM) standards (SCIM, SAML, OAuth, OIDC) or directory services (AD, LDAP).
• Experience with resilient systems design (e.g., retry strategies, circuit breakers, rate limiting).
• Hands-on experience with feature flagging frameworks and gradual/canary deployment strategies.
• Experience with queueing systems or message brokers (e.g., Kafka).
• Education and Training B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). #LI_Hybrid P24501_3531294

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [India]

About the employer

• Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.
• 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 We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in building and scaling the Okta Recovery Vault (ORV) .
• This team is responsible for Okta's enterprise-grade soft-delete and object recovery capability, designed to protect critical identity objects (Users and Groups) from accidental or malicious deletion.
• As a Senior Engineer, you will own the technical design, implementation, and operational reliability of critical components within our real-time, high-fidelity recovery system.
• You will solve complex engineering problems around identity preservation (UUIDs) and relationship restoration—including group memberships, app assignments, and password hashes—ensuring our customers can seamlessly recover from data loss events.
• Job Duties and Responsibilities Feature Execution: Drive the technical design and end-to-end implementation of complex features, such as granular and bulk recovery workflows across Free and Advanced Resilience tiers.
• Component Design: Design and build reliable core components for real-time recovery systems that capture deletion events and support scalable data restoration.
• Relationship & State Management: Solve challenging engineering problems around relationship restoration (group memberships, app assignments, device enrollments) and state consistency.
• Security & Compliance: Implement secure logging and tracking for all recovery operations (soft-delete, restore, permanent-delete) in Syslog to adhere to strict audit and compliance standards.
• Product & Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Product Managers and technical leads to clarify requirements, define technical scope, and break down complex projects into actionable milestones.
• Operational Excellence: Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis (RCAs), and enhance system observability, logging, and metrics.
• Code Quality & Technical Standards: Champion engineering best practices through thorough code reviews, automated testing, and comprehensive technical documentation.
• Team Growth: Provide guidance and peer mentorship to intermediate and junior engineers on the team to foster technical growth and code quality.
• Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Additional role details

• Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
• 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.