Staff software engineer on Okta's Platform & Infrastructure team in Bengaluru, building the developer platform that all of Okta Engineering runs on.

This full-time Bengaluru role was posted on 7 October 2026. The listing describes the Platform & Infrastructure team as the central nervous system for all of Okta Engineering, building and owning the developer platform. The listing asks directly: are you a software engineer who believes an exceptional developer platform unlocks engineering-wide productivity? Requirements include having built and scaled internal platforms before, and 5+ years of software engineering experience.

About Okta

Okta builds identity and access management software: workforce identity (single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, lifecycle management) and customer identity products, plus Auth0 for developers. Its own listings describe the mission as securing every identity, from AI to human.

Okta runs a large engineering centre in Bengaluru working on core product areas, alongside its global offices. Listings for India roles cover engineering, security, SRE and business technology functions. Learn more on Okta's website.

The role in plain terms

The 'built and scaled internal platforms before' requirement is the filter: they want someone who has already lived the platform-adoption problem, not a product engineer curious about platform work. Developer-platform success is measured in other teams' velocity, so the job rewards people who think about paved paths, documentation and support burden as much as code. At 5+ years this is a more accessible staff-level door than the 8+ year postings.

The team and the work

Per the listing, the team owns the central developer platform for the whole engineering organisation - build systems, environments and internal tooling by implication of the 'central nervous system' framing - making the internal-customer surface very broad.

What the employer asks for

These requirements are quoted from the employer's listing, kept in their exact words so eligibility details are not distorted:

We are looking for a seasoned engineer who has built and scaled internal platforms before.
5+ years of experience in Software Engineering
Coding Skills: You are a strong software engineer first, with proven experience building and maintaining complex systems in Go (Golang) and/or Python .
Kubernetes is a Must: You have deep, practical experience building, running, and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes. You understand pods, operators, scheduling, and networking inside and...
CI/CD as a Platform: You have architected, built, and/or significantly scaled CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Tekton, ArgoCD) as a platform for other engineers, not...
Cloud Expertise: You have demonstrable experience working in major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and understand the nuances of their core services.
The Platform Ecosystem: You're fluent in the tools of the trade: Docker , container registries (like Artifactory), and modern build systems (like Gradle or Bazel...
Platform Mindset: You are customer-obsessed (your customers are other engineers) and have a proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects to completion.

Who this role suits

Engineers with 5+ years and concrete experience building internal platforms that other engineers adopted. Not for engineers without internal-platform ownership, or those who prefer customer-facing product work.

Practical notes

For developer-platform roles, expect questions on driving adoption without mandate, measuring platform success, and a migration you led. Platform-thinking stories beat pure coding war stories here.

Working at Okta

Engineering work at Okta centres on identity infrastructure at high scale: authentication, authorization, directory and security services that sit on the critical path of customer logins.

How to apply

Apply directly on the employer's site: Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure at Okta. We found this listing on the Greenhouse public job board (okta.com), where it was posted on 7 Oct 2026 and was still open when we checked on 30 Oct 2026. Before applying, re-read the employer's own description in full, since eligibility details, deadlines and process steps can change at any time and the employer's page is always the final word. Tailor your resume to the specific requirements above rather than sending a generic one: mirror the skills and tools the listing names where you genuinely have them. A short, specific note on why this team and this problem interest you goes further than a long generic cover letter. Never pay a fee to apply or interview; genuine employers, including this one, do not charge candidates.

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