Senior Software Engineer in Test
Okta · Posted Oct 12
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral identity infrastructure that lets organizations safely embrace AI, and the Performance Load Testing team works on a hub-spoke model with a deep focus on load generation systems, test data generation, and Node.js and Golang applications. The team partners with engineering teams across all Auth0 products and platforms to create more accurate simulated load generation and data generation tests. This role is a deep engineering position — not a typical QA/testing role — focused on non-functional load testing, identifying optimization areas, analyzing what is broken and why, and improving simulation accuracy while mentoring junior engineers.
What you will do
- You'll be at the forefront of research and development, uncovering efficiencies at a platform level and collaborating with engineering teams across the organization to implement solutions.
- This isn't your typical QA or testing role, but rather a deep engineering role focused on performance load testing
- You'll be supporting specific teams with performance load coverage, load optimization and testing and ensuring our systems not only maintain their current high level of performance but continuously evolve and improve.
- You will partner with other senior load testing engineers, and mentor more junior engineers, working to achieve a high level of team impact.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Programming Knowledge: Experience with a programming language like Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Golang is a requirement. We're looking for someone with a tester's mindset who can understand code, databases and data structures and collaborate effectively with our engineering teams to ensure high-quality software.
- Experience with Databases: Have used databases such as MongoDb or SQL to store configuration or user data, understand tradeoffs between persistence and performance, and have used optimizations in these areas. Familiarity with indexes, query planners a plus. The ability to understand complex join queries and model datasets that leverage them.
- Microservices & Kubernetes Exposure: High-level understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and microservices architecture.
- Public Cloud Experience: Familiarity with public cloud environments, AWS and Azure.
- A "Developer" Mindset: You're passionate about digging into code, understanding system behavior, and proactively identifying areas for optimization.
- Observability tooling experience: Experience using or implementing datadog, new relic, open tracing, open telemetry or similar request tracing tooling. Load testing tool experience with: Jmeter, Apache Bench, Artillery, etc. Linux and Containers: You have leveraged linux and containers in production in the past.
- You have deep testing experience, 5+ years working with advanced load generation and analysis systems and tools.
- You understand Agentic AI tools, Experience with tools like Claude, Gemini, CoPilot implementing agents, skills, workflows and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, Git hooks and review processes.
Benefits and support
- Access to conferences and ongoing learning.
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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