Staff Software Engineer (Core Infrastructure)

• 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 staff level backend engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who’re 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
• 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

Benefits

• Work from home opportunities
• Health + Wellness
• Financial Benefits
• Pay + Incentives
• Time Off
• Everyday Living
• Resources

• 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
• Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta’s technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth
• 3+ yrs experience developing, operating, optimizing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes. Experience with AWS EKS is a plus, so is experience with GCP
• Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Tomcat, AWS, Redis, and Docker
• Familiarity with Agile software development process
• Experience with enterprise SaaS as a good-to-have
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent; master’s preferred
• Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
• Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
• Knowledge of network security, authentication and authorization
• 3+ yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing databases and fine tuning queries is a plus
• Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals. Knowledge of gRPC is a plus