Senior Fullstack Engineer [ Heavy + React ]

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.

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.

Oktas Auth0 is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe secure and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-0 global service to deliver convenience privacy and security so customers can focus on innovation.

The Enterprise Management team provides enterprise-ready centralized governance of the Auth0 resources our customers build on tenants teams and dashboard users under a single pane of glass. As customer environments grow in scale and complexity we ensure secure autonomous and frictionless access through tenant-level transparency and access controls that meet or exceed their security policies.

We own the full lifecycle of tenants and teams the management dashboards and the public APIs that enable enterprise customers to programmatically govern their Auth0 environments at scale. Our work spans RBAC self-service SSO and the tooling that enables internal teams to support customers on their Auth0 journey.

We work with TypeScript PostgreSQL MongoDB and React to build highly available and performant services. We ship with quality our recent launches have gone live with zero production bugs.

• Design and build high-performance customer-facing features end-to-end using React and delivering from concept through production deployment.
• Architect and optimize backend APIs both public and internal for throughput latency and reliability at enterprise scale.
• Implement and manage caching strategies to minimize response times and reduce database pressure across our dashboards and API surfaces.
• Profile diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks across the full stack from React rendering and state management to database query optimization and network I/O.
• Model and optimize data access patterns across PostgreSQL and MongoDB choosing the right datastore and indexing strategy for each workload.
• Drive technical improvements to our codebase and architecture ensuring our systems are highly reliable maintainable and scalable.
• Collaborate with engineers inside and outside the team to design and deliver powerful new APIs and features for our enterprise customers.
• Mentor and coach other engineers on sound engineering practices performance discipline and testing.
• Work closely with your team the Product Manager and the Product Designer to define the look feel and functionality of new features and review customer feedback.
• Participate in the teams on-call rotation to ensure we offer our customers the best availability for our services.

• 5 years of experience working on large-scale systems or services.
• Strong expertise using (TypeScript) to build backend services and create and maintain public or internal APIs.
• Production experience building fullstack applications with React component architecture state management rendering performance and modern tooling.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL schema design query optimization indexing strategies and migrations.
• Production experience with MongoDB document modeling aggregation pipelines and scaling patterns.
• Hands-on experience designing and tuning caching layers (Redis) cache invalidation strategies write-through/write-behind patterns and TTL management.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve performance problems using profiling tools APM instrumentation load testing and capacity planning.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and cloud environments; AWS and/or Azure experience is preferred.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a demonstrated interest in mentoring and helping teammates grow.

• Experience building RBAC systems multi-tenant platforms or identity and access management products.
• Experience designing and shipping APIs at scale including versioning rate limiting schema design and SDK readiness.
• Experience with event-driven architectures pub/sub systems or asynchronous job processing.
• Familiarity with observability and performance tooling such as Datadog New Relic or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with SSO OIDC OAuth 2.0 and enterprise security patterns.

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