Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack

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 flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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.

Our vision is to free everyone to safely use any technology. We promise to make identity work for everyone—whether you’re a developer looking to innovate or a security professional looking to mitigate. We are looking for curious, excited, boundary-pushing team members. So, if you’re a big thinker who is nimble and adaptable, Okta may be an ideal place to shine.

Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0 technology, is an easy to implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our high caliber Product Experience Engineering team. Your role will be to help us provide a world class experience to our customers. In this role, you will have the opportunity to significantly contribute to the foundation of Auth0's product stack, realizing a huge impact for both our customers and partners.

What you will do:

• Work with product & design teams to deliver world-class user experiences.
• Delight our customers by providing world class UX using our React-based design system.
• Drive technical decisions, while striving to strike the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, and performance.
• Proactively address needs of teams across the engineering organization to ensure rapid delivery of a robust, secure and maintainable product.
• Mentor junior engineers on their development journey

• Contribute to improving Auth0's architecture, performance, observability, security controls, and best practices.
• Contribute to the engineering initiatives which are full stack in nature with 50% UI and 50% backend technologies.

Key Qualifications:

• 8+ years of expertise with full stack application development.
• Verifiable track record of moving software through all stages of development from ideation to deprecation.
• Solid understanding of full web technology stack: RESTful services, client-side & server-side frameworks, databases & security.
• Experience working with Express, Node.js, React.js or NextJs
• Experience with databases - SQL or NoSQL
• Experience with packaging and distributing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Github Actions, Jenkins etc and maintenance of a delivery pipeline
• A high bar for both code quality as well as quality of user experience.
• Proven ability to collaborate with others to drive initiatives forward.
• Embrace developer first mindset while crafting elegant solutions
• Solid written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves:

• Experience working in distributed teams and work environments.

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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