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Staff Software Engineer, Platform Streaming (Auth0)

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 5+ years of software development experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
  • Experience working with Golang or Java is preferred
  • Hands-on experience designing, developing and tuning highly scalable, event-driven systems
  • Solid understanding of database fundamentals and experience with event streaming technologies such as Kafka

Requirements:

  • Help set the technical direction for the team and influence the engineering roadmap for the Platform's streaming capabilities
  • Design and lead the implementation of our most complex and critical systems for data-intensive use cases
  • Research and champion new technologies and architectural patterns to solve strategic challenges and scale the platform
  • Lead and influence cross-functional initiatives, ensuring technical alignment and successful execution across multiple teams

Job description

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 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. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Streaming Foundations team builds services and operates data pipeline infrastructure to support event streaming, messaging, and analytics use cases. We are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, platform engineering, and solving data-intensive problems at scale. In this high-impact role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come.


What you’ll be doing

  • Help set the technical direction for the team and influence the engineering roadmap for the Platform’s streaming capabilities
  • Design and lead the implementation of our most complex and critical systems for data-intensive use cases.
  • Research and champion new technologies and architectural patterns to solve strategic challenges and scale the platform.
  • Lead and influence cross-functional initiatives, ensuring technical alignment and successful execution across multiple teams.
  • Improve the operational posture of our systems by designing for observability, reliability, and scalability, and by mentoring others in operational best practices.
  • Coach and mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across the engineering organization.


What you’ll bring to our teams

  • 5+ years of software development experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
  • Experience working with Golang or Java is preferred
  • Hands-on experience designing, developing and tuning highly-scalable, event-driven systems
  • Solid understanding of database fundamentals and experience with event streaming technologies such as Kafka
  • A passion and interest to work on systems that are highly reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.


Extra points

  • Experience with front-end technologies such as TypeScript and React
  • Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker
  • Familiarity with or interest in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) business domain

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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:
$160,000$220,000 CAD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at https://www.okta.com/legal/personnel-policy/.

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