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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

As a member of the Developer Enablement team, you will be focused on solving challenging problems around development environment frameworks, scalability and stability so that all engineers at Okta are enabled to deliver products at high velocity and scale without compromising quality, and coding standards. The team is chartered to understand software development pain points, provide solutions for those, set guidelines for code organization and development, and ensure that development environments in general are kept performant and stable as we continue to add more features and functionalities to our product portfolio. In this team you will have the opportunity to define and mould the future of development infrastructure at Okta.

Job duties and responsibilities

Design and develop innovative automated solutions that enable developers to stay productive as they continue to add product features and functionalities
Understand, analyze usage of and drive improvements to the development environments
Build tools that measure operational performance of local development environments
Enable automation for quick and efficient configuration of development environments
Help developers with any questions they may have regarding their development environments
Provide guidelines to enable best practices for code organization and development
Profile and tune performance of development environments, including making changes to the codebase itself
Work with developers, architects and release engineering to keep the code and overall development process efficient
Stay abreast of industry trends for developer efficiency and cross-pollinate those ideas and processes with Okta's development processes

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
3+ year of industry experience of developing, debugging, profiling and performance tuning in Java, Spring and Tomcat
Well versed with build tools like Maven (preferred), Gradle, Bazel etc. -- configuring, profiling, and fine tuning those for superior performance
Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes/ECS
Experience with large public cloud provider like AWS, GCP, or Azure a plus
Familiar with GIT and CI/CD pipelines
Ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams, and get up to speed with new technologies

This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our Bengaluru, IN office during the first week of employment.

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

Amazing Benefits
Making Social Impact
Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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.

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