Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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 identity standard. The Okta Workforce Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their users' experiences. With over 17,600 customers, 7000+ app integrations, and well over 500 million registered users, we are only getting started.

Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.

We're looking for a principal level backend engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.

You will:

• Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform on AWS/GCP)
• Drive evaluation, development and rollout of new microservices
• Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.
• Evaluate existing systems to evolve them for supporting Okta's future business needs
• Conduct design and code reviews for scale, redundancy and multi-tenancy. Ensure high programming standards by writing unit and functional tests.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and fix services and frameworks the team owns
• Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers
• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers

You have:

• Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth
• Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
• 7+ yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. Experience with implementing multithreaded apps, debugging and tuning garbage collection and memory management.
• 4+ yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing databases and fine tuning queries is a plus.
• 2+ yrs of hands-on experience in working with data stores like Elasticsearch and Redis
• Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals
• Experience with operating workloads in a multi-cloud environment – AWS and GCP – is a major plus
• Knowledge of network security, authentication and authorization
• Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
• Experience with enterprise SaaS as a good-to-have
• Familiarity with Agile software development process

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Hybrid

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.

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