Software Architect, Lifecycle Management
Quick Summary
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
- →Lead the architectural design and implementation of new features and services, with a focus on scalability, performance, and security.
- →Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define the technical strategy and lead the prototyping of software components.
- →Directly oversee and coordinate complex technical initiatives involving 20+ engineers, ensuring alignment across disparate sub-teams
- →Drive a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement, with a focus on robust testing, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- →Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies in identity, security, and distributed systems.
- →Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work.
- The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
- 15+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experience with Hibernate and Spring Boot
- A deep understanding of design patterns, scalability patterns, security engineering, and object-oriented principles.
- 4+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
- Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures.
- Experience working with relational databases, ideally MySQL, PostgreSQL or GraphDB
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across functions, distributed teams.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers
Nice to Have
~1 min read- B.E. Computer Science or equivalent
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- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
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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Listing Details
- Posted
- April 1, 2026
- First seen
- April 1, 2026
- Last seen
- July 19, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 109
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 31%
- Scored at
- July 19, 2026
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