Staff 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
Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management service delivered from the cloud, providing directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and reporting. The Data Platform team owns the foundational data services, systems, and data products behind streaming analytics, interactive end-user reporting, telemetry, and the data and ML platform. This role designs, builds, deploys, and optimizes high-volume, low-latency distributed data-platform services and streaming infrastructure using technologies such as Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake.
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
- 8+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java
- Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including
- 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
- Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems
- Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
- Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management
- Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management
Preferred qualifications
- 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
- Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack
Benefits and support
- Equity
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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