GET TO KNOW OKTA

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

THE PAM TEAM

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.
We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the building blocks of the product.

THE BACKEND ENGINEER OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Backend Software engineer that has a deep understanding of Golang development. In this role, you will be a vital part of our Okta Privileged Access Team.
You will share our passion and great pride in building elegant solutions and will join an engineering team that prioritizes scalability, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative approach to build high-quality, next-generation enterprise software. You will be part of an engineering team at Okta that provides opportunities to investigate new technologies and share knowledge, tools, code, and best practices. You will get an opportunity to solve hard problems while partnering with many cross functional teams.
Our team is fast, innovative, and flexible, with an agile release cycle and personal project ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
• Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
• Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
• Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
• Work on backend systems written in Go
• Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

• 2+ years of experience
• Are an experienced software engineer with a background in Golang
• Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
• Have the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
• Have experience working with cloud services like Caching, Queues, NoSQL Databases etc.
• Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
• Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design.
• Enjoy deep-diving into production metrics, and familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, DataDog etc.
• Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.
  

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