Staff Software Engineer (Backend Platform)

at  Okta

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 STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER OPPORTUNITY

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.

Required education and experience:

• 6+ years working as a software engineer.
• Experience working with production systems.
• Bachelors in CS, or equivalen

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

• 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.

Required education and experience:

• 6+ years working as a software engineer.
• Experience working with production systems.
• Bachelors in CS, or equivalent