Senior Software Engineer

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

• Experience: 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).

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