Staff Backend Engineer

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Auth0
Auth0 is an easy to implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.

We are looking for a Staff Engineer with experience across the following technologies:
Python
Location:
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Work Mode:
Hybrid (2-3 days Onsite per week)

Note:
This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our Bengaluru, IN office during the first week of employment.
Job Description:
You GET developers You know what they need, how to talk to them, how to make their lives easier, what makes them click, their dissatisfiers and their delighters. You recognize when a framework, library or product provides a great experience. As a staff backend engineer, you will use those superpowers to build and maintain SDKs and libraries, improve our entire onboarding process, SDKs, Quick starts, Docs, and provide direct assistance to developers in our support channels.

You will be the internal and external steward of the experience for the technologies that you love working with every day.

Each engineer shepherds one or multiple platforms forward, both internally within Auth0, and externally in the community. You will be working in a cross-functional team alongside the developer evangelist, onboarding, growth, dashboard, community, tooling, and SDK teams to provide the best developer experience for the technologies you own.

The most important qualifications for this position are software engineering expertise, product mindset, leadership, empathy, and self-direction.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and develop new SDKs, libraries, APIs and experiences that make complex identity APIs and flows easy to understand and integrate into customer apps
• Provide technical direction and guidance to engineers on your direct team and help shape a highly technical roadmap
• Coach and mentor engineers at all levels up to their peer level.
• Discover and advocate for new technologies to accelerate improvements to our libraries, including insights and automation
• Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc.

What You'll Bring To The Role

• 9+ years of software development experience out of which at least 5+ years in python and with good experience and strong working knowledge with Java or .net technologies.
• Experience in creating / contributing to large scale open-source projects.
• Mentor a team of engineers to success, across a diverse set of technology platforms
• Have an excellent understanding of Python and the ecosystem.
• Have developed libraries or SDKs to be consumed by other developers.
• 2+ years of working experience on Java or .Net
• Have a good understanding of Java, the JVM, and the ecosystem
• Experience in designing, developing, or integrating AI powered solutions into scalable systems.
• Bring the right attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.
• The ability to communicate effectively in person and in writing as a presenter, documenter.
• Demonstrable experience authoring developer documentation (tutorials, blog posts, docs).

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following

• Knowledge or experience building web applications using frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
• Have a good understanding of any other backend language (e.g. .Net / PHP / Ruby or anything similar, their frameworks, and ecosystem)
• Experience with AI frameworks such as Lang-chain or Llama index
• Experience working in distributed teams and work environments.
• Maintains a technical blog or has published articles on popular Python-focused platforms (e.g., Real Python, Towards Data Science).

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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

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