Senior Software Engineer, PAM
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Job Summary
Secure Every Identity from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.
The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale.
Were looking for a Senior level Platform Engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who are proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.
What youll do
- 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.
- Work with engineering teams to design develop and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Kubernetes/EKS RDS DynamoDB Kinesis MKS Redis OpenSearch Docker Terraform on AWS)
- Drive evaluation development and rollout of microservices
- Operate support and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Oktas business.
- Evaluate and scale existing systems to meet specialized requirements and support Oktas future business needs.
- Lead design and code reviews to ensure systems are scalable redundant and multi-tenant. high programming standards by writing 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
What youll bring
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 5 years of extensive programming experience in modern programming languages like Go Java or C especially in backend services. Go is preferred.
- Proven track record of architecting deploying and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructure with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and AWS container environments.
- Solid technical grasp of 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
- Experience with fundamental Cloud building blocks like IaC Observability Secrets Management CI / CD pipelines secure coding practices and compliance.
- Deep understanding of REST APIs and proven experience building and integrating them.
- 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
Education: Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills qualifications and addition Okta offers equity (where applicable) bonus and benefits including health dental and vision insurance RRSP with a match healthcare spending telemedicine and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$136000 - $187000 CAD
The Okta Experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection Community
We are intentional about connection. Our global community spanning over 20 offices worldwide is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
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.
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The Okta Experience Supporting Your Well-Being Driving Social Impact Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an imme ... View more
