The Engineering OpportunityWe are looking for top notch back end software engineers who solve some of the hardest problems in Okta Engineering and own the reliability of our growing Identity as a Service Platform. This platform is the foundation for our main SaaS offerings, with a multitude of common services like caching, DB clustering and async frameworks that rest of the engineering teams build on. This multi-faceted team evaluates and adopts new technologies, builds innovative frameworks, crafts new microservices and tunes the platform that help Okta provide a reliable, robust and responsive service to our customers. The projects these engineers work on are impactful and highly visible presenting excellent growth opportunities and breadth of experience across various technologies. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. You'll be joining 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 change the cloud computing landscape forever.
What you ll be doing
Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects that will solve reliability issues and help Okta s service scale
Champion innovative and scalable solutions across the engineering organization
Drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks
Conduct design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standards by writing unit and functional tests.
Implement unit and functional tests
Collaborate with Architects, QA, Product Owners, Engineering Services, Tech Ops
What we are looking for
Experience with enterprise SaaS
Demonstrated history of architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging global cloud software and infrastructure
Programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services.
Significant experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems
Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and Docker or similar technologies
Passion for following best practices in software engineering
Familiarity with Agile software development process
Previous experience in a platform reliability role
Education and TrainingBachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
Amazing Benefits
Making Social Impact
Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Practice Manager / HeadEmployement Type: Full time
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