Senior Software Engineer

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. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.   * We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test, who is eager to drive non-functional load testing, identify critical optimization areas, and conduct in-depth analysis to understand "what's broken and why." as well as “How can we improve the simulation?”  * You'll be at the forefront of research and development, uncovering efficiencies at a platform level and collaborating with engineering teams across the organization to implement solutions. * This isn't your typical QA or testing role, but rather a deep engineering role focused on performance load testing About the Team: * Our Performance Load testing  team operates on a hub-spoke model, with a core focus on deep understanding load generation systems, test data generation, and node.js and golang applications.. * We partner with engineering teams from across all products and platforms at Auth0, working to create more accurate simulated load generation and data generation tests.  * You'll be supporting specific teams with performance load coverage, load optimization and testing and ensuring our systems not only maintain their current high level of performance but continuously evolve and improve. * You will partner with other senior load testing engineers, and mentor more junior engineers, working to achieve a high level of team impact.  What We're Looking For: * Programming Knowledge: Experience with a programming language like Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Golang is a requirement. We're looking for someone with a tester's mindset who can understand code, databases and data structures and collaborate effectively with our engineering teams to ensure high-quality software. Experience with Databases: Have used databases such as MongoDb or SQL to store configuration or user data, understand tradeoffs between persistence and performance, and have used optimizations in these areas. Familiarity with indexes, query planners a plus. The ability to understand complex join queries and model datasets that leverage them. * Microservices & Kubernetes Exposure: High-level understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and microservices architecture. * Public Cloud Experience: Familiarity with public cloud environments, AWS and Azure.  * A "Developer" Mindset: You're passionate about digging into code, understanding system behavior, and proactively identifying areas for optimization. Observability tooling experience: Experience using or implementing datadog, new relic, open tracing, open telemetry or similar request tracing tooling.   Load testing tool experience with: Jmeter, Apache Bench, Artillery, etc. Linux and Containers: You have leveraged linux and containers in production in the past.  * You have deep testing experience, 5+ years working with advanced load generation and analysis systems and tools.  You understand Agentic AI tools, Experience with tools like Claude, Gemini, CoPilot implementing agents, skills, workflows and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, Git hooks and review processes. Why Join Us? * High Scale, High Impact: Work on a global identity platform with millions of users, where your contributions will have a significant and immediate impact across our entire engineering organization. * Solve Complex Problems: Tackle challenging performance and resilience issues in a distributed, high-throughput environment. * Exceptional Growth Opportunities: * Access to conferences and ongoing learning. * Mentorship from staff and senior team members. * Exposure to low-level problems, infrastructure knowledge, microservices, and Kubernetes scheduling optimization. * Opportunities to go deep into areas that genuinely interest you, continuously expanding your skillset. #LI_Hybrid P24594 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

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. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Get to know Okta Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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. The Product Auth0 is a developer-friendly identity platform that simplifies authentication and authorization for applications. Designed by developers for developers, we make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. Know more about our product at https://auth0.com/. The Role We are hiring for a new team within Core Identity, the Engineering organization entrusted with the very heart of the Auth0 application. Our teams own the authentication pipeline, identity protocols, user sessions, and all the fundamental concepts and foundational elements that underpin our entire product. We are also the stewards of the platform's technical health, performance, and efficiency. As a Senior Engineer for this new team, named Core Frontier, you will operate at the vital intersection of deep product innovation and the global customer experience. Your mission is to ensure that the sophisticated features developed across the Core Identity organization (such as Native to Web, Cross-App Access and Custom Token Exchange) are hardened, scaled, and seamlessly integrated into the Auth0 ecosystem. You will act as the architectural bridge, ensuring that complex internal logic translates into a polished, secure, and high-performance experience that millions of developers and end-users interact with every day. This is an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems challenges at a global scale, whilst providing a delightful and secure experience for our customers. You will primarily work with our NodeJS backend (TypeScript/JavaScript), with data stored in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis, all running on a multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure). If you have a passion for simplifying complex problems, building resilient and secure software, and care deeply about the final "feel" of a product, we encourage you to apply. Experience with or an interest in Identity and Access Management is highly valued. What you will do:  * Be a founding engineer of this new team in Bengaluru, setting the technical bar and engineering culture for our growing presence in the region and working in collaboration with our global teams in Europe and North America. * Build and design  innovative features that extend the capabilities of Auth0’s platform to help our customers innovate around the world securely and delightfully. * Contribute to the strategic technical quality, security, reliability, and scalability of our systems, and advocate for engineering best practices. * Thrive in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment, working with talented engineers and partners across Product, Security, Design, Architecture and QA to deliver features that delight our customers and ensure a unified technical vision. * Deepen or gain expertise in identity, security, and modern cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) while working on distributed systems at scale. * Mentor and be mentored by other engineers and contribute to our culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. * Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our critical services remain healthy and reliable. What you will bring: * 5+ years of professional software development experience, or equivalent. * Proficiency in designing and  building services with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript). * Experience creating and maintaining public and secure APIs, as well as front ends. * Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure). * A strong commitment to quality, with experience in various testing strategies (e.g., unit, integration, end-to-end). * A product-oriented mindset, with the ability to understand customer needs and work collaboratively to find effective solutions. Nice to have: * Experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain. * Knowledge of security engineering principles and application security best practices. What you can look forward to as an 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/. 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/. #P24605_3431654 #LI-Hybrid The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.