Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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 Okta is the identity standard The Okta Workforce Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise and transform their users experiences With over 17 600 customers 7000 app integrations and well over 500 million registered users we are only getting started Okta s Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on We re in charge of common shared services like search cache configuration management frameworks for async job management and email pipeline to name a few We re cloud native where redundancy multi-tenancy scale resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens With Okta s mantra of Always On there s never a dull moment Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers We re looking for a staff level backend engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who re proud of what they own and deliver Our elite team is fast creative and flexible with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever You will Work with engineering teams to design develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack Redis Docker Terraform on AWS Drive evaluation development and rollout of new common microservices Operate support and upgrade shared services and frameworks Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta s business Conduct design and code reviews Ensure high programming standards by writing unit and functional tests Monitor troubleshoot and fix services and frameworks the team owns Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers Collaborate with architects QA product owners security and operations engineers You have Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta s technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth Solid technology chops in architecting implementing tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent master s preferred 7 yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java especially in backend services A superior understanding of multithreading garbage collection memory management 3 yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems Experience with designing databases and fine tuning queries is a plus 3 yrs experience developing operating optimizing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes Experience with AWS EKS is a plus so is experience with GCP Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals Knowledge of gRPC is a plus Experience with Spring Spring Boot Hibernate Tomcat AWS Redis and Docker Knowledge of network security authentication and authorization Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles Experience with enterprise 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people and technology Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time With over 7 000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business More than 19 300 organizations including JetBlue Nordstrom Slack T-Mobile Takeda Teach for America and Twilio trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers