Senior Backend Engineer, Core Cloud Infrastructure

Okta Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 165.000 - 227.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Performance bonus

Health dental vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Descripción de la vacante

Okta is seeking a staff-level backend engineer in San Francisco to design, develop, and operate cloud-based infrastructure and services. You will work with a fast-moving team delivering on a modern stack including Redis, Docker, Terraform on AWS, with weekly releases and strong ownership.

You will mentor junior developers, review designs, and collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security, and operations teams to ensure scalable, reliable systems.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent required.
• 5+ years of expansive programming experience in object-oriented languages (Java) for backend services.
• Strong understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects on a modern stack (Redis, Docker, Terraform on AWS).
• Evaluate, develop and rollout new common features and frameworks.
• Operate, support and upgrade shared services and frameworks as usage grows.
• Conduct design and code reviews and write unit and functional tests.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and fix services and frameworks owned by the team.
• Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers.

Conocimientos

Java backend

Multithreading

Garbage collection

Memory management

Cloud engineering

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Master's degree preferred

Herramientas

Redis

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Descripción del empleo

Okta is seeking a staff-level backend engineer in San Francisco to design, develop, and operate cloud-based infrastructure and services. You will work with a fast-moving team delivering on a modern stack including Redis, Docker, Terraform on AWS, with weekly releases and strong ownership.

You will mentor junior developers, review designs, and collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security, and operations teams to ensure scalable, reliable systems.