Staff Engineer - Fullstack

Okta · Bengaluru · 8+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: AWS, Azure, Docker, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, SQL, TypeScript

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Help drive the architectural vision and strategy on the team to design and deliver powerful new enterprise APIs and functionality for our customers.
- Orchestrate and lead major technical projects across teams as necessary.
- Design, architect, code, and document large-scale distributed systems.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on building scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
- Mentor and coach less experienced engineers on sound engineering practices and technical leadership.
- Collaborate with Product, Security, and other engineering teams to define and continually improve our platform and architecture.
- Drive technical decision-making while striving to hit the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, and performance.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotations to make sure we offer our customers the best availability for our services.
Qualifications:
- to the role:
- 8+ years of experience working on large-scale systems or services.
- You bring solid architectural and security knowledge, backed by experience in designing, implementing, and evolving complex distributed systems.
- You have worked on projects that required close collaboration with external teams and have experience making those a success.
- You have solid previous experience with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript) to build scalable backend services and create and maintain public and internal APIs.
- Experience building full-stack applications with an understanding of React.
- A good understanding of SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases and how to optimize them for performance under load.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and cloud environments like AWS and Azure.
- You are a good mentor and communicator, and can explain complex concepts simply.
- 8+ years of experience working on large-scale systems or services.
- You bring solid architectural and security knowledge, backed by experience in designing, implementing, and evolving complex distributed systems.
- You have worked on projects that required close collaboration with external teams and have experience making those a success.
- You have solid previous experience with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript) to build scalable backend services and create and maintain public and internal APIs.
- Experience building full-stack applications with an understanding of React.
- A good understanding of SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases and how to optimize them for performance under load.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and cloud environments like AWS and Azure.
- You are a good mentor and communicator, and can explain complex concepts simply.
- Hybrid
- PID Number: P24578
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

Qualifications

- to the role:
- 8+ years of experience working on large-scale systems or services.
- You bring solid architectural and security knowledge, backed by experience in designing, implementing, and evolving complex distributed systems.
- You have worked on projects that required close collaboration with external teams and have experience making those a success.
- You have solid previous experience with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript) to build scalable backend services and create and maintain public and internal APIs.
- Experience building full-stack applications with an understanding of React.
- A good understanding of SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases and how to optimize them for performance under load.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and cloud environments like AWS and Azure.
- You are a good mentor and communicator, and can explain complex concepts simply.
- Hybrid PID Number: P24578
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

Responsibilities

- Help drive the architectural vision and strategy on the team to design and deliver powerful new enterprise APIs and functionality for our customers.
- Orchestrate and lead major technical projects across teams as necessary.
- Design, architect, code, and document large-scale distributed systems.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on building scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
- Mentor and coach less experienced engineers on sound engineering practices and technical leadership.
- Collaborate with Product, Security, and other engineering teams to define and continually improve our platform and architecture.
- Drive technical decision-making while striving to hit the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, and performance.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotations to make sure we offer our customers the best availability for our services.

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