About the job
The Universal Directory Platform team at Okta develops and maintains the core systems that manage identity assets and their relationships for enterprise security. As a Staff Platform Engineer, this position focuses on building and supporting the backbone that enables identity management at scale.
This role is based in San Francisco, California. The schedule is hybrid, with at least two days per week in the office.
Key responsibilities
- Become familiar with the identity management codebase, development tools, and processes such as Jira, technical design documentation, code reviews, testing, and deployment workflows.
- Design and implement frameworks and tools for the Universal Directory Service platform.
- Develop distributed, scalable, high-performance, and fault-tolerant software components.
- Deliver high-quality bug fixes and resolve customer-reported issues promptly.
- Conduct thorough code reviews and contribute to automated testing initiatives.
- Collaborate with Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to plan and execute development and deployment work.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and deploying reliable, high-performance infrastructure and product code at scale in a cloud environment.
- At least 7 years of software development experience in Java, with strong knowledge of Hibernate and Spring Boot.
- 5 or more years developing services, internal tools, and frameworks.
- Minimum 3 years working with cloud infrastructure, service-oriented architecture, and microservices.

