Staff Software Engineer

Okta; Toronto; On-site; CAD 146,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta, a leader in identity management, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Privileged Access Management team. The role focuses on enhancing system architecture and API development in a collaborative environment leveraging Golang and relational databases. Candidates should have extensive experience in software engineering, bringing a passion for distributed systems and a background in cloud technologies. Join us to impact security and access management in a meaningful way.

Benefits

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

RRSP with a match

Telemedicine and paid leave

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• 6+ years working as a software engineer.
• Experience with production systems.
• Solid understanding of cloud services and database management.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the core architecture of PAM.
• Design and implement scalable architecture patterns.
• Build APIs with OpenAPI Specification.

Skills

Golang

Distributed Systems

API Design

Relational Databases

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent

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 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.

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.

The Privileged Access Management Team (PAM)

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale.

The Staff Software Engineer:

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the building blocks of the product.

What you'll be doing:

• Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
• Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
• Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
• Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
• Work on backend systems written in Go
• Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.
  
  

What you'll bring to the team"

• Are an experienced full stack engineer with a background in Golang
• Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
• Have the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
• Have experience working with cloud services like Caching, Queues, NoSQL Databases etc.
• Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
• Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design.
• Enjoy deep-diving into production metrics, and familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, DataDog etc.
• Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.
  
  

Required education and experience:

• 6+ years working as a software engineer.
• Experience working with production systems.
• Bachelors in CS, or equivalent
  
  

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:

$146,000—$220,000 CAD

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.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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