Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack (Identity Security)

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel. Hybrid work with 3 days per week from the office.

Company

Okta builds Workforce and Customer Identity Cloud products that provide secure access, authentication, and automation across technologies, devices, and applications.

What you will do

• Design and build high-quality backend services for foundational platforms, web applications, and identity security products.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and R&D engineers to deliver robust, high-performance solutions across the stack.
• Improve engineering standards through quality code, documentation, testing, monitoring, and modern development methodologies.
• Identify and resolve backend technical issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Mentor colleagues and promote knowledge sharing across distributed engineering teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining complex, enterprise-grade distributed systems in high-growth environments, including 6+ years designing and implementing backend services with Node.js and modern TypeScript.
• Proven working familiarity with modern frontend frameworks, specifically React, for full-stack collaboration and ownership.
• Deep knowledge of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, asynchronous event-driven design, and data persistence patterns.
• Practical experience with relational databases and NoSQL or caching stores.
• Strong foundations in computer science, data structures, algorithms, and scalable software design patterns.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills for working with distributed, global engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with NestJS or similar enterprise-grade Node.js server frameworks.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and container orchestration.
• Experience in identity and security domains, including IAM, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, identity security posture management, threat detection, or cloud security.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with 3 days per week in the office and an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
• Well-being support, social impact initiatives, talent development, and community-building programs.
• Access to a global community spanning more than 20 offices worldwide.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support during application, interviews, and onboarding.