Senior Software Engineer in Test

Role overview

Senior Software Engineer in Test at Okta

Required qualifications

• Familiarity with public cloud environments, AWS and Azure.
• A "Developer" Mindset: You're passionate about digging into code, understanding system behavior, and proactively identifying areas for optimization.
• Observability tooling
• Experience using or implementing datadog, new relic, open tracing, open telemetry or similar request tracing tooling.
• Load testing tool experience with: Jmeter, Apache Bench, Artillery, etc.
• Linux and Containers: You have leveraged linux and containers in production in the past.
• You have deep testing experience , 5+ years working with advanced load generation and analysis systems and tools.
• You understand Agentic AI tools, Experience with tools like Claude, Gemini, CoPilot implementing agents, skills, workflows and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, Git hooks and review processes.
• Why Join Us?
• High Scale, High Impact: Work on a global identity platform with millions of users, where your contributions will have a significant and immediate impact across our entire engineering organization.
• Solve Complex Problems: Tackle challenging performance and resilience issues in a distributed, high-throughput environment.
• Exceptional Growth Opportunities: Access to conferences and ongoing learning.
• Mentorship from staff and senior team members.
• Exposure to low-level problems, infrastructure knowledge, microservices, and Kubernetes scheduling optimization.
• Opportunities to go deep into areas that genuinely interest you, continuously expanding your skillset. #LI_hybrid P24595

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.
• Our Performance Load testing team operates on a hub-spoke model, with a core focus on deep understanding load generation systems, test data generation, and node.js and golang applications.
• We partner with engineering teams from across all products and platforms at Auth0, working to create more accurate simulated load generation and data generation tests.
• You'll be supporting specific teams with performance load coverage, load optimization and testing and ensuring our systems not only maintain their current high level of performance but continuously evolve and improve.
• You will partner with other senior load testing engineers, and mentor more junior engineers, working to achieve a high level of team impact.
• What We're Looking For: Programming Knowledge: Experience with a programming language like Node.js , TypeScript , JavaScript , or Golang is a requirement.
• We're looking for someone with a tester's mindset who can understand code, databases and data structures and collaborate effectively with our engineering teams to ensure high-quality software.
• Experience with Databases: Have used databases such as MongoDb or SQL to store configuration or user data, understand tradeoffs between persistence and performance, and have used optimizations in these areas.
• Familiarity with indexes, query planners a plus.
• The ability to understand complex join queries and model datasets that leverage them.
• Microservices & Kubernetes Exposure: High-level understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and microservices architecture.
• Public Cloud

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.
• We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test, who is eager to drive non-functional load testing , identify critical optimization areas, and conduct in-depth analysis to understand "what's broken and why." as well as “How can we improve the simulation?” You'll be at the forefront of research and development, uncovering efficiencies at a platform level and collaborating with engineering teams across the organization to implement solutions.
• This isn't your typical QA or testing role, but rather a deep engineering role focused on performance load testing