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Job Description

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.

We are looking for a Senior Software engineer who is passionate about writing the tools to integrate and support to build large-scale, high-demand software in a fast-paced agile environment with a devops mindset . You will share our passion for test-driven development, continuous integration and automation to produce frequent high-quality releases.

Our engineering team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership. We believe in pushing boundaries and embracing emerging technologies, and you will be part of the team that is constantly evolving and scaling our Developer experience and Infrastructure to the next level.

You will get an opportunity to work in scaling our infrastructure to the next generation. Our scale is already huge in running tens of thousands of tests for every commit automatically managing hundreds and thousands of compute nodes across AWS and GCP environments . This comes with challenges in speed by reducing compute time from days to a few minutes.

What You'll Be Doing

Major areas of responsibility include:

- You will be part of the team that manages the large scale distributed infrastructure across AWS and GCP, supporting a variety of tools and technologies that serve the needs of the entire organization.
- You will be part of the team that builds, maintains, and improves our highly-automated build, release and testing infrastructure.
- Scripting, tools-building, and automation are paramount to Okta Engineering; everybody automates. You will be creating and coding tools for internal use to support continuous delivery.
- Team up with Development, QA and OPS to continuously innovate and enhance our build and automation infrastructure
- Collaborate with peers and stake-holders to create new tools/process/technology. We use the latest technology from AWS and you can experiment, recommend, and implement new technologies in our build and CI system.
- Work with internal customers to roll-out projects and process, monitor adoption, collect feedback, and fine-tune the project to respond to internal customers needs

What We Are Looking For

- 5+ years of a solid background in Software Engineering and Operations.
- Problem solving skills on one of the programming languages(Python/Golang/NodeJs)
- You approach problem from DevOps mindset
- You have hands-on experience managing distributed infrastructure in AWS/GCP.
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience of CI/CD release pipelines.
- Experience in Kubernetes
- Experience with AWS, its services, and its supporting tools (cost control, reporting, environment management).
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional work toward task completion.

Education and Training:

- B.S. in CS or equivalent

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee

- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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