Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Okta

• The ideal candidate will have a deep technical background and hands-on experience in building and deploying Machine Learning systems, as well as promoting a data-driven culture across the organization
• They would not hesitate to wrangle data, if necessary, and are acutely familiar with what makes an effective and efficient machine learning team
• They will also show passion generally for the field of applied machine learning
• Additionally, the candidate will have interest in learning about and potentially contributing toward cutting edge open source Machine Learning and Data Science technologies
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related quantitative field
• Fluency in a computing language, e.g. Python, Scala, C++, Java, etc
• Experience with building production systems and platforms at scale
• Familiar with full AI/ML lifecycle from model development, training, testing, deployment, monitoring, and refining and iterating
• Knowledge in handling large datasets using SQL and databases in a business environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Exceptional troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment
• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire

Desirable

• 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-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation
• The Machine Learning team is responsible for building machine learning models, and developing various infrastructure and platform components to scale up machine learning operations
• The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will help lead, build, scale and maintain the development and production platforms
• Design and implement infrastructure and platform components for training, deploying, and monitoring machine learning models in production
• Build pipelines to ingest data from myriad sources into a centralized data lake for various use cases
• Collaborate with production engineering teams to ensure that machine learning models integrate successfully into production environments while adhering to performance and availability SLOs
• Participate in project planning, design, development, and code reviews
• Communicate verbally and in writing to business customers and leadership teams with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our systems, as well as sharing insights and recommendations
• Partnership across Engineering, Product Management, Security and Design teams to solve technical and non-technical challenges