Principal Software Engineer, Okta

• Have 10+ years of software development experience
• Proficient in at least one language while comfortable in more than one of the backend languages - Java, Typescript, Ruby, GoLang, C#, Python
• Demonstrable knowledge of HTTP fundamentals with strong API Design skills
• Comfortable in React or similar front-end UI stacks; if not comfortable yet, you are willing to learn
• Have experience working with at least one of the database technologies - MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL
• Experience working with at least one cloud-native system of scale (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with distributed systems patterns including caching, asynchronous processing etc
• Track record of delivering work incrementally to get feedback and iterating over solutions
• Comfortable working on a fully-distributed, remote team. Bring the right attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus
• Excellent written communication skills, bringing structure to ambiguous concepts, and driving closure on them methodically using first principles
• Possess or have interest in developing a strong product sense

Desirable

• We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join an innovative and fast moving full-stack team to build a new set of developer-facing products to achieve this mission. We welcome personalities that are self-driven, think outside-the-box, take pride in shipping high quality software and most importantly kind
• Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity
• Work with user experience designers and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies
• Develop secure and reusable components to enable other teams to easily implement UIs with rich and consistent look and feel
• Develop APIs and SDKs that developers love
• Have a high bar for security, test-driven development, design reviews and code reviews while harboring a sense of urgency
• Define long-term observability and reliability metrics for the systems/features that they own