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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.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
You are a knowledgeable specialist who can articulate technical aspects eloquently and recognize the difficulties faced by developers when integrating various services into unique apps. You are extremely passionate about assisting Okta's clients and partners in utilizing our scalable, secure identity platform.
You will be in charge of offering technical assistance to our clients, including debugging and resolving sophisticated software issues, in your capacity as a Senior Developer Support Engineer. Also, you will collaborate directly with our product development peers to spot recurring problems, deal with them, and guarantee product quality.
Day in the Life:
As a Senior Developer Support Engineer at Okta, your main focus is on ensuring customer issues are resolved. This is a customer-facing role, where you may participate in customer calls, join standup meetings, collaborate with peers, build or test use cases, engage with Engineering on potential bugs, and help your colleagues on issues where you have expertise. Your objective is to deliver exceptional technical support and troubleshooting to clients and partners, predominantly developers, utilizing the Okta platform while maintaining outstanding customer service.
Responsibilities:
- Provide well-thought-out and reliable advice and troubleshooting for application development with Okta with existing and prospective customers, ISVs, and developers.
- Take end-to-end ownership of questions and issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root causes, and issue resolution.
- Write code/script to build user scenarios using Okta API and SDKs, to reproduce issues.
- Help developers understand how Okta works, and the various technical use cases of the platform. Collect information and document bugs with Engineering for API and product issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product and Documentation and provide feedback on common or emerging issues. Craft process or troubleshooting documentation in the support knowledge base. Engage and respond to the Okta developer community through Stack Overflow, forums, etc. Deliver against customer experience targets.
- Push creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry standard practices to come up with process improvements and new ways to delight customers.
Requirements:
- BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Support, technical support, or software development preferably a customer-facing role.
- Experience working on cloud applications.
- Demonstrated ability to program in one statically typed (C++, .NET, Java) and one dynamically typed language (Python, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript.)
- Expertise supporting both classic and modern web stacks (e.g., JSP, Rails, Django/Flask, Node.js, ASP.NET.)
- Experience supporting REST APIs.
- Real passion for solving issues and advocating for their success, in a dynamic, highly technical environment.
- Should be willing to be a part of on-call rotation during weekends on a rotational basis.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Excellent customer service and communication skills in a variety of forms (written, live chat, conference calls, in-person.)
- Ability to work independently with little direct supervision and as a part of a team.
- Excellent analytical and organizational abilities.
- You are known to be a strong contributor and a collaborator who takes initiative and is willing to take up new tasks as required by the organization.
- You are passionate about developer topics, and enjoy helping others solve problems.
- You are always learning and curious, keeping up to date with developer trends - a plus if you are a trendsetter yourself.
- Ability to mentor and guide the team in resolving complex challenges.
Strongly Desired Qualifications:
- Experience supporting Identity Access Management solutions.
- Experience supporting LDAP, SSO, SAML, or WS Federation.
- Experience supporting cloud applications such as Office 365, Google Apps, Salesforce, Workday, NetSuite, Box, etc.
- Experience supporting n-tier web applications.
Location Note:
This role is based in Bengaluru, India and follows a hybrid work model, requiring in-office presence two to three days a week.
This role also involves in-person onboarding and travel to our Bengaluru, IN office during the first week of employment.
Work schedule : Tuesday - Saturday, 9 am - 6 pm
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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
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