Senior Backend Software Engineer, Okta
Performance
$136-228k
OTE
Salary dependent on location
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Job no longer available
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$136-228k
OTE
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Experience as a software developer working with Java or a similar language
- Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably MySQL and Hibernate
- Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects of SaaS offering
- Experience in Query optimization and relational database schema design
- Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Storm, ElasticSearch, Cassandra
- Experience troubleshooting or tuning SAAS/PAAS/IAAS performance
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for top-notch back-end software engineers to solve some of the most challenging Okta Engineering problems and own the performance and scale of our growing Identity as a Service Platform
- The Performance Engineering team is responsible for managing and safeguarding the resources that back the global Okta Identity Cloud services
- This team performs comprehensive system analysis across all tech stack layers to optimize resource usage and identify areas where the resilience and scalability of our services can be increased
- Features developed by this team assist in supporting the traffic generated by thousands of organizations and millions of daily active users worldwide
- Working with teams across the entire engineering organization, this team relentlessly drives toward improved code performance, higher system scalability, and strong ownership of the products we build
- We hope you share our passion for our work and want to join an engineering team that strongly believes in automated testing and an iterative process to build high-quality next-generation cloud platforms
- Our elite team is fast, innovative, and flexible. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects and emerging technologies
- Design and implement frameworks to protect and optimize critical system resources
- Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of the Okta service
- Assist in developing and implementing models for infrastructure capacity
- Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation
- Participate in scheduled on-call rotations that explore critical performance-related customer escalations
- This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data
Our take
Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.
The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. They aim to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.
Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2015
$75m
SERIES F
Jun 2014
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $229.3m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health + Wellness
- Financial Benefits
- Pay + Incentives
- Time Off
- Everyday Living
- Resources
Company values
- Love our customers
- Never stop innovating
- Act with integrity
- Be transparent
- Empower our people
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Manager, Recruiting EMEA and promoted to Director, Recruiting EMEA after 3 years. Promoted again to Senior Director, Recruiting EMEA after another 3 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Okta
- Workforce: We believe in recruiting diverse talent to create balanced teams
- Workplace: We support and empower employees to be authentic and grow through open conversations and education
- Marketplace: We go to market and sell to diverse audiences
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