Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports products providing innovative solutions to business use cases and operational problems.
• Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and implementation activities, often requiring independent research.
• Develops high-quality, maintainable, scalable, and secure configuration for the platform.
• Owns specifications, quality, release, and monitoring of production health.
• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for all implementations and promotes a team culture of documentation.
• Tests and ensures the quality of all configurations.
• Provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers.
• Collaborates with leadership, product managers, designers, test automation, and other teams to define, prioritize, and scope requirements.
• Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, and metrics (KPI).
• Performs impact assessments of product hardware and software upgrades.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience; MS is a plus.
• Proven experience managing Okta across multiple environments with a strong understanding of environment-specific configuration strategies.
• Proficiency in automating configuration using Okta APIs or Terraform.
• Experience configuring and managing federated identity partnerships (e.g., SAML, OIDC) with external identity providers and service providers.
• Hands-on experience configuring and managing multi-factor authentication factors (e.g., email, SMS, TOTP, YubiKey, WebAuthn, Passkeys, Okta Verify).
• Experience tailoring MFA enrollment, step-up authentication, and recovery based on user groups, device posture, network zones, and sign-on risk.
• Strong debugging and log analysis skills across integrated systems.
• Experience with Okta Workflows, custom policies, and automation of identity tasks.
• Experience deploying and managing Okta Access Gateway (OAG) and troubleshooting its integrations.
• Familiarity with OAG architecture, high availability, load balancing, and secure connectivity.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices, containerization (e.g., Docker), and cloud/hybrid environments.
• Ability to understand business plans and develop IT business cases.
• Ability to guide, train, and mentor associate engineers.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.

Nice to Have

• MS degree in a related field.
• Experience with high availability and load balancing architectures.
• Experience with vendor relationship management related to technology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive base and incentive pay
• 401(k) with robust matching and contributions
• Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
• 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
• Holistic wellbeing program with financial incentives
• Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
• Career development, tuition reimbursement, recognition programs
• Family support including adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
• Employee discount program