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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.
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Tired of hacking together a login system for every new application or microservice that you need to deploy? Want to contribute to a platform that makes authentication for any application super simple? Then Okta’s Developer Community Products team needs you!
Our team is looking for an experienced application developer that also has experience with the java language to join us as we build open-source libraries and tools for the Okta platform. You will be an active contributor to the Okta’s java tooling as well as other SDKs and libraries on our roadmap.
The Senior Software Engineer (Python) - OSS &Developer Opportunity
In this role you will be working on the leading edge of our Open Source Software (OSS) program and will gain invaluable experience with library design and development, as well as interacting with a community of engaged developers who use your work on a daily basis You will continue to deepen your knowledge of Java and CI/CD tools by writing libraries that other developers will use in real-world, production applications. This role provides the opportunity to design right, code right, and test right.
Okta is an extensible identity platform and our APIs allow developers at companies of all sizes to integrate Okta into their own applications. The Developer Community Products team is responsible for sharing the love with those developers by identifying common use cases and creating tools and SDKs that make their lives easier, while helping them understand our product and the protocols that we support.
We are a polyglot team and while we are looking to scale our Java engineering, we also value a generalist mindset and co-learning across stacks. We work closely as a team to design solutions that work across languages and environments.
Interested in the work we do? It's open source, check us out on GitHub ;)
What you’ll be doing
- Design and build software development kits (SDKs), written in Python for developers using Okta within their CI/CD workflows.
- Participate in product development and roadmap exercises
- Interact with our customers through GitHub, responding to issues and reviewing pull requests
- Participate in software design and code review for all libraries that the team creates
- Implement holistic testing strategies to assert we're delivering a good developer experience, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Write documentation and how-to content for the libraries that you create
What you’ll bring to the role
- 4+ years working as an application developer (you've written and deployed production code, and can empathize with the development process.)
- Experience building and designing SDK and working with Terraform is preferred
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of the Python programming language, and a desire to continue growing this knowledge
- Experience with unit and end-to-end testing
- Experience working with a product-oriented, agile culture
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- Active involvement with CI/CD concerns, hands-on experience with tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform
- Experience with other languages, such as Java or .NET
- Experience interacting with other developers on GitHub (e.g. opening issues, contributing to issues, filing pull requests)
- Experience building libraries or tools that are depended on by other developers, internal or external
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What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
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