Principal Software Engineer - PAM

Okta · Bengaluru

  • Experience9–14 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Posted30 Sept 2026
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About Okta

Okta is hiring in Bengaluru in technology software. This role looks for around 9+ years of experience.

Skills

  • Go
  • Java
  • C++
  • React
  • Angular
  • Vue
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST
  • AWS
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • OpenSearch
  • Kinesis
  • Kafka
  • Docker
  • network security
  • authentication
  • authorization
  • Agile

The role

A principal software engineer at a cloud security software company designs and builds privileged access management solutions using Go, React, and PostgreSQL, while shaping scalable backend services and reusable interfaces. The role also applies AWS and REST to secure enterprise platforms and guide technical design.

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Job Summary

Principal Software Engineer - PAM

You Will

Leverage cutting-edge AI pair-programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products.

Proven expertise leveraging AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC) while maintaining high code quality.

Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based privileged access management solutions.

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features using modern JavaScript and cloud-native backend technologies.

Lead technical design for key initiatives, driving quality, scalability, and maintainability.

Build reusable and performant UI components for a best-in-class no-code builder experience.

Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new features and common platform components.

Evaluate existing systems to evolve them for serving in specialized circumstances to support Okta's future business needs

Conduct thorough design and code reviews, ensuring that proposed solutions account for scalability, redundancy, and multi-tenancy. Uphold high programming standards by consistently writing comprehensive unit and functional tests

Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks the team owns

Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers

Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers

You Have

Immense passion for doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth,

Extensive experience with cloud based software security product development.

Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world

A good understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.

9+ years of extensive programming experience in a modern programming language like Go, Java, or C++ especially in backend services. Go is preferred, but not mandatory.

Good knowledge of modern frontend javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue etc.

8+ years experience working with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing and querying databases with optimization in mind is a plus.

Demonstrated experience of working with REST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals

Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker

Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization

Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles

Familiarity with Agile software development process

Previous experience at Security firms is a huge plus

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent