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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
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Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
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.
Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.
We're looking for a senior level backend 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.
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 Okta's 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 Okta's 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
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
3-5 yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A superior understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.
3-5 years of experience working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with database design and query tuning is a plus.
3-5 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 a 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
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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 experience. In 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: https://rewards.okta.com/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:: $144,000 USD - $194,000 USD
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