Senior Data Platform Engineer | Enterprise Data Platform

Okta is the large independent identity provider, the company enterprises use to control who can access what. This role is on its internal Enterprise Data Platform team, building the data infrastructure that feeds Okta's own AI use cases with AI ready data. It is described as a hands on contributor role reporting into the Senior Manager for the platform, turning a data product vision into secure and scalable infrastructure by building core components of it. Expect pipeline and data modelling work with a strong governance and security overlay, since the underlying data is identity related. Five or more years of data engineering is the stated bar. Good fit if you want platform data engineering at enterprise scale rather than analytics reporting.

Okta states 5+ years of data engineering experience, focused on building data pipelines, data models and working on data platforms. The team is the Enterprise Data Platform group and the role reports to the Senior Manager of that team. The posting is explicit that this is a hands on contributor position: you build and implement core components of the data infrastructure rather than only design it, and the stated objective is a platform that supplies AI ready data to Okta's internal AI use cases. Expect the usual pillars, ingestion, modelling, orchestration and quality, with an unusually heavy security and governance emphasis, because Okta's business is identity and the data flowing through this platform is sensitive by nature. Location is Bengaluru, named in the job title itself. Company context that matters for fit: Okta's stated mission is to let any organisation use any technology securely, it is the leading independent enterprise identity provider, and it is currently positioning AI and data capability as a central pillar of its next growth phase, which is why this platform exists. That is a reasonable signal that the team has budget and visibility rather than being a back office reporting function. A caution worth naming: Okta is running a very large India hiring push right now, with dozens of Bengaluru engineering requisitions open simultaneously and several near identical titles. Read the specific team on the posting rather than the title, because the same title at Okta today can mean quite different work. This one is data platform, not analytics and not business intelligence.