Platform Datastores Engineer – Scalable Infrastructure

Okta; Toronto (OH); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health coverage

RRSP match

Healthcare spending

Telemedicine

Paid leave

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Datastores Engineer for its Platform Infrastructure team. You will build and maintain large-scale datastore infrastructure, enable teams to deploy and manage datastores, and research new technologies to accelerate environment creation.

You will operate in a distributed team, contribute to design reviews, ensure reliability and security, and participate in on-call rotations. 5-8 years of software experience, Go proficiency, and cloud (AWS/Azure) familiarity are highly valued.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in Go (Golang) or willingness to learn.
• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with data stores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB.
• Knowledge of datastore reliability, latency, throughput and availability metrics.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Ability to deliver incrementally and own end-to-end initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop large, distributed, highly-available datastore infrastructure.
• Build platform tooling for teams to deploy and manage datastores.
• Research new technologies to accelerate environment creation.
• Lead cross-team initiatives including design reviews and security hygiene.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Terraform

Kubernetes (k8s)

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

DynamoDB

Distributed systems

On-call support

Job description

Okta is seeking a Datastores Engineer for its Platform Infrastructure team. You will build and maintain large-scale datastore infrastructure, enable teams to deploy and manage datastores, and research new technologies to accelerate environment creation.

You will operate in a distributed team, contribute to design reviews, ensure reliability and security, and participate in on-call rotations. 5-8 years of software experience, Go proficiency, and cloud (AWS/Azure) familiarity are highly valued.