Staff Software Engineer
Okta · Bengaluru · 8–12 yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Azure, Go, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, Redis
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About the role
Responsibilities:
- As a Staff Engineer on this team, you will not just write code; you will own the technical strategy, architect highly resilient frameworks, design developer-friendly APIs, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers.
- Your architectural ownership will span the entire stack - from the React-based frontend down through our Node.js/Go services, robust operational pipelines, and PostgreSQL databases.
- Product Ownership: Lead the technical lifecycle of your team’s products, ensuring they are robust, secure, and performant from the frontend to the infrastructure layer.
- Full-Stack Execution: Bridge the gap between UI and Backend by designing clean APIs, efficient data flows, and scalable service architectures.
- Architecture & Design: Create and document technical designs for team initiatives, ensuring they account for scale, reliability, and regional constraints.
- Operational Health: Ensure your team’s services meet strict performance and security standards (SLAs/SLOs), including observability, rate-limiting, and SEO.
- Mentorship: Elevate the technical bar of your team through code reviews, design feedback, and hands-on guidance.
- Key Qualifications:
- Technical Execution (Full Stack):
- 8 to 12 years of hands-on experience in JavaScript/Node.js/Go and React/Next.js.
- Experience in designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Backend -
- Service Design: Strong proficiency in designing and building scalable services using Node.js (mandatory) or Go.
- Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes: Deep, hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and operating backend services on AWS, with strong proficiency in Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Data, Caching & Pipelines: Strong experience with relational databases ( PostgreSQL ), distributed caching ( Redis ), and data/deployment pipelines.
- Performance & Scale: Experience using quantitative analysis (latency, traffic volume) to justify your design and technology choices.
- Strong production systems experience, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response.
- Frontend -
- Hands-on experience with modern React & MobX/Redux
- Build tools: Strong experience with frontend build tools, module bundlers, package managers
- Web Performance: Understanding of core web vitals, page speed and performance optimization.
- End-to-End Systems Knowledge: A clear understanding of how web traffic moves from the browser through CDNs, Load Balancers, and API Gateways to the backend.
- Delivery & Quality:
- Backend Excellence: Designing highly reliable backend architectures and implementing robust, automated delivery pipelines.
- Operational Mindset: Familiarity with the "Product-Ops" side of engineering - including security best practices, telemetry, alerting, and monitoring.
- Clear Communication: Ability to articulate technical trade-offs and visualize system flows for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain.
- Knowledge of security engineering principles and application security best practices.
- LI-Hybrid
- P19001
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Qualifications
- Experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain.
- Knowledge of security engineering principles and application security best practices.
- LI-Hybrid P19001 Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Responsibilities
- As a Staff Engineer on this team, you will not just write code; you will own the technical strategy, architect highly resilient frameworks, design developer-friendly APIs, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers.
- Your architectural ownership will span the entire stack - from the React-based frontend down through our Node.js/Go services, robust operational pipelines, and PostgreSQL databases.
- Product Ownership: Lead the technical lifecycle of your team’s products, ensuring they are robust, secure, and performant from the frontend to the infrastructure layer.
- Full-Stack Execution: Bridge the gap between UI and Backend by designing clean APIs, efficient data flows, and scalable service architectures.
- Architecture & Design:
- Create and document technical designs for team initiatives, ensuring they account for scale, reliability, and regional constraints.
- Operational Health: Ensure your team’s services meet strict performance and security standards (SLAs/SLOs), including observability, rate-limiting, and SEO.
- Mentorship: Elevate the technical bar of your team through code reviews, design feedback, and hands-on guidance.
- Technical Execution (Full Stack):
- 8 to 12 years of hands-on experience in JavaScript/Node.js/Go and React/Next.js.
- Experience in designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Backend Service Design: Strong proficiency in designing and building scalable services using Node.js (mandatory) or Go.
- Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes:
- Deep, hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and operating backend services on AWS, with strong proficiency in Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Data, Caching & Pipelines:
- Strong experience with relational databases ( PostgreSQL ), distributed caching ( Redis ), and data/deployment pipelines.
- Performance & Scale:
- Experience using quantitative analysis (latency, traffic volume) to justify your design and technology choices.
- Strong production systems experience, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response.
- Frontend Hands-on experience with modern React & MobX/Redux
- Build tools: Strong experience with frontend build tools, module bundlers, package managers
- Web Performance: Understanding of core web vitals, page speed and performance optimization.
- End-to-End Systems Knowledge: A clear understanding of how web traffic moves from the browser through CDNs, Load Balancers, and API Gateways to the backend.
- Delivery & Quality:
- Backend Excellence: Designing highly reliable backend architectures and implementing robust, automated delivery pipelines.
- Operational Mindset: Familiarity with the "Product-Ops" side of engineering - including security best practices, telemetry, alerting, and monitoring.
- Clear Communication: Ability to articulate technical trade-offs and visualize system flows for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.