Sr. Software Engineer- Resilience

Okta, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 118,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Back-end Software Engineer to solve challenging problems and optimize performance for their Identity as a Service Platform. The role involves designing frameworks, monitoring metrics, and advising on feature implementation. They value diverse perspectives and offer a dynamic, innovative work environment.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance

RRSP with a match

Healthcare spending

Telemedicine

Paid leave including PTO and parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience as a software developer working with Java or a similar language.
• Experience with SQL and related technologies.
• Experience in a role focused on performance aspects of SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement frameworks to protect and optimize critical system resources.
• Create and monitor performance metrics for various components.
• Advise other teams on scalable feature design.

Skills

Performance Optimization

Troubleshooting

Query Optimization

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MySQL

Hibernate

Redis

ElasticSearch

Cassandra

Job description

Get to know Okta

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 Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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 World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Identity as a Service solution enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.

The Engineering Opportunity

We are looking for top-notch back-end software engineers to solve some of the most challenging Okta Engineering problems and own the performance and scale of our growing Identity as a Service Platform. The Performance Engineering team is responsible for managing and safeguarding the resources that back the global Okta Identity Cloud services. This team performs comprehensive system analysis across all tech stack layers to optimize resource usage and identify areas where the resilience and scalability of our services can be increased. Features developed by this team assist in supporting the traffic generated by thousands of organizations and millions of daily active users worldwide. Working with teams across the entire engineering organization, this team relentlessly drives toward improved code performance, higher system scalability, and strong ownership of the products we build.

We hope you share our passion for our work and want to join an engineering team that strongly believes in automated testing and an iterative process to build high-quality next-generation cloud platforms. Our elite team is fast, innovative, and flexible. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects and emerging technologies.

What you’ll be doing

Design and implement frameworks to protect and optimize critical system resources

Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of the Okta service

Assist in developing and implementing models for infrastructure capacity

Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation

Participate in scheduled on-call rotations that explore critical performance-related customer escalations

What we are looking for

Experience as a software developer working with Java or a similar language

Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably MySQL and Hibernate

Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects of SaaS offering

Experience in Query optimization and relational database schema design

Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Storm, ElasticSearch, Cassandra

Experience troubleshooting or tuning SAAS/PAAS/IAAS performance

Education and Training: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field

#LI-TM

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:

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 Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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 World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Identity as a Service solution enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.

The Engineering Opportunity

We are looking for top-notch back-end software engineers to solve some of the most challenging Okta Engineering problems and own the performance and scale of our growing Identity as a Service Platform. The Performance Engineering team is responsible for managing and safeguarding the resources that back the global Okta Identity Cloud services. This team performs comprehensive system analysis across all tech stack layers to optimize resource usage and identify areas where the resilience and scalability of our services can be increased. Features developed by this team assist in supporting the traffic generated by thousands of organizations and millions of daily active users worldwide. Working with teams across the entire engineering organization, this team relentlessly drives toward improved code performance, higher system scalability, and strong ownership of the products we build.

We hope you share our passion for our work and want to join an engineering team that strongly believes in automated testing and an iterative process to build high-quality next-generation cloud platforms. Our elite team is fast, innovative, and flexible. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects and emerging technologies.

What you’ll be doing

• Design and implement frameworks to protect and optimize critical system resources

• Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of the Okta service

• Assist in developing and implementing models for infrastructure capacity

• Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation

• Participate in scheduled on-call rotations that explore critical performance-related customer escalations

What we are looking for

• Experience as a software developer working with Java or a similar language

• Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably MySQL and Hibernate

• Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects of SaaS offering

• Experience in Query optimization and relational database schema design

• Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Storm, ElasticSearch, Cassandra

• Experience troubleshooting or tuning SAAS/PAAS/IAAS performance

• Education and Training: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field

#LI-TM

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: $118,000 — $178,000 CAD

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

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• 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.

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