Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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.

Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Platform is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise and transform their users experiences.

Oktas Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. Were in charge of common shared services like search cache configuration management frameworks for async job management and email pipeline to name a few. Were cloud native where redundancy multi-tenancy scale resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Oktas mantra of Always On! theres never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.

Were looking for a staff level backend engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players whore 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.

You will:

• Work with engineering teams to design develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis Docker Terraform on AWS)
• Drive evaluation development and rollout of new common features and frameworks
• Operate support and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Oktas business.
• Conduct design and code reviews. Ensure 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

You have:

• Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Oktas technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth
• Solid technology chops in architecting implementing tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent; masters preferred.
• 8 yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java especially in backend services. A superior understanding of multithreading garbage collection memory management.
• 3 yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing databases and fine tuning queries is a plus.
• 3 yrs experience developing operating optimizing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes. Experience with AWS EKS is a plus so is experience with GCP.
• Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals. Knowledge of gRPC is a plus.
• Experience with Spring Spring Boot Hibernate Tomcat AWS Redis and Docker
• Knowledge of network security authentication and authorization
• Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
• Experience with enterprise SaaS as a good-to-have
• Familiarity with Agile software development process
  
  

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.As a condition of employment for this position the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen National Lawful Permanent Resident Refugee or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

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