Senior Software Engineer, Observability (Auth0)

Okta; Toronto; Sur place; CAD 136 000 - 187 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

RRSP with matching

Healthcare spending account

Telemedicine

Paid parental leave

Résumé du poste

Okta is seeking an Observability Engineer to join the Auth0 Platform Observability team. You will help ensure product and platform engineers can monitor and observe our services while we rapidly ship software customers love.

As a Senior Engineer, you will champion best observability practices, own production reliability, and drive cross-team instrumentation improvements across the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking), including alerting standards and Terraform configurations.
• Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.

Responsabilités

• Champion observability best practices and educate teams on robust instrumentation.
• Run services in production environments and ensure high availability.
• Design services for high growth and scalability.
• Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services.
• Build and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using Terraform.
• Troubleshoot performance and operational issues; automate tasks.
• Contribute to performance testing and automation efforts.
• Lead major incident responses to diagnose root causes and gaps in telemetry.
• Lead cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation standards.

Connaissances

SRE/DevOps

Cloud infrastructure

Datadog observability

Node.js / Golang

Docker / Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry / OTel

Cross-team leadership

Outils

Terraform

Description du poste

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Auth0 Platform Observability team owns the observability tooling that monitors the Auth0 Platform, and we are looking for an Observability Engineer to help ensure our Product and Platform Engineers can monitor and observe our platform while we continue to rapidly ship software our customers love. Our engineers maintain and automate observability tooling for our entire platform, including metrics, logs, and traces. We are looking for engineers passionate about monitoring, observing, measuring uptime and availability, and ensuring platform stability. If you have experience within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) field or working as a Development Operations (DevOps) engineer, and you have a passion for Observability tooling, this position will allow you to further your learning and development in these areas. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you will act as a core technical leader. You will work cross-functionally to help integrate services with our instrumentation libraries, support product teams, and actively investigate incidents to identify our observability gaps.

Responsibilities

• Proven ability to champion observability best practices, acting as an educator who can effectively correct anti-patterns and teach other engineering teams how to build robust, standardized instrumentation.
• Be an expert in running services in production environments
• Contribute to the process of designing services for high growth and high availability.
• Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services
• Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and operational issues.
• Automating operational tasks and improving scripts.
• Assisting with and providing feedback for performance testing and automation
• Actively participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify critical gaps in our current telemetry tooling.
• Act as a technical leader, driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards across the broader engineering organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience
• Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking), including establishing alerting standards, implementing tagging taxonomies, and managing Datadog configurations via Terraform.
• Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.
• Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring more junior engineers.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and collaborate seamlessly with multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.

Compensation & Benefits

• The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $136,000 - $187,000 CAD.
• equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can . The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $136,000 - $187,000 CAD.

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