Senior Software Engineer
Okta · Posted Oct 9
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta, covering streaming analytics, interactive end-user reporting, telemetry, and a data and ML platform. The analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of modern technologies including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake. This role involves designing, building, deploying, and optimizing high-volume, low-latency distributed data-platform services and streaming infrastructure that power Okta's data analytics and machine learning.
What you will do
- Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components
- Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation
- Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning
- Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 4+ years of experience of software development
- Proficient in at least one language while comfortable in more than one of the backend languages, preferably Java or Typescript, Ruby, GoLang, Python.
- Have experience working with at least one of the database technologies - MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL.
- Demonstrable knowledge of computer science fundamentals with strong API Design skills.
- Comfortable working on a geographically distributed extended team. Brings the right attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.
- Track record of delivering work incrementally to get feedback and iterating over solutions.
- Comfortable in React or similar front-end UI stacks; if not comfortable yet, you are willing to learn
Preferred qualifications
- Experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies such as
- Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka
- Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam
- Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop
- Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos
- Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure
- Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services
- Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems.
- Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop
Benefits and support
- significant equity in a company
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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