Senior Software Engineer
Okta · Posted Sep 15
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. The Auth0 platform secures more than 100 million logins each day, and the Platform Infrastructure team enables Auth0 engineers to move faster by giving them tools to easily deploy and manage their services on AWS and Azure. This Datastores Engineer role on the Platform Infrastructure team focuses on building large, distributed, highly-available infrastructure and platform tools for datastores that allow Auth0 to scale for years to come.
What you will do
- Develop our large, distributed and highly-available infrastructure.
- Implement platform tools that allow feature teams to deploy and manage the datastores for their services.
- Research new technologies to accelerate new environment creation.
- Carry cross team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Have 5-8 years of platform / infrastructure engineering experience.
- Are proficient in or have a desire to learn Golang
- Have experience managing infrastructure with Terraform.
- Have experience working with k8s, CICD
- Comfortable working with data storage systems, at scale and in a team environment using technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Dynamodb
- Comfortable working on datastore reliability - standard configurations for data stores, latency, throughput, availability, utilization indicators, performance analysis
- Have experience working with Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services.
- Tend to deliver work incrementally to get feedback and iterate over solutions.
- Have a passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
- Bring the right attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
- Are comfortable working on a fully-distributed team.
Preferred qualifications
- Have experience working with databases
- Have DevOps experience using cloud-agnostic, cloud-native technologies.
Benefits and support
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
- Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
About Okta
Okta is a leading independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions that securely connect people and technologies to the right applications. The company powers both Workforce Identity and Customer Identity platforms, allowing organizations to securely manage user access and navigate modern challenges like agentic AI security.
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Company size
- 7500+ employees
- Founded
- 2009
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $228M raised
- 2010-02-01Series A$10M
- 2011-08-01Series B$16.5M
- 2012-12-01Series C$25M
- 2013-09-01Series D$27M
- 2014-06-01Series E$75M
- 2015-09-01Series F$75M
- 2018-02-21Post IPO Debt$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Legal Officer
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