Staff Software Engineer, Okta

• 8+ years of experience in a software engineering role
• Excellent communication skills
• A passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, scalable, and secure
• Interested in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Deep understanding of JavaScript / TypeScript and building performant and secure RESTFul APIs using NodeJS
• Hands-on experience in designing, maintaining, modernizing and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and driving the technical vision for them
• Thrive in a highly collaborative, fully remote, and distributed culture
• Demonstrate ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and a customer-focused attitude
• Strong experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing and designing testing strategies

Desirable

• The API Foundations team was established to streamline and bring consistency to how we build customer facing APIs for Auth0. The team aims to standardize our architecture and provide a robust set of building blocks to help enhance the internal and external developer experience when consuming, building and contributing to our APIs
• In addition to providing guidance and building blocks, the team is responsible for development and stewardship of our customer facing Management API
• As a member of the API Foundations team, you will help Auth0 build a reference API experience. This team contributes to the developer journey within Auth0, especially on the onboarding and management phases, facilitating the discovery and usage of our APIs for managing their Auth0 resources
• Be a part of a collaborative and agile team, interfacing with the product managers and other teams to support shared services
• Provide technical direction to the team, detecting technical improvement opportunities and taking action to design and implement them
• Mentor and coach other engineers to support their growth and bring them along
• Design and develop features, APIs, and fixes to handle our current and future scale with a strong bias towards security
• Support existing services by ensuring that security issues and dependency updates are addressed in a timely manner
• Support other teams by reviewing changes to shared services and addressing bugs
• Work using NodeJS (JavaScript/TypeScript), MongoDB, and PostgreSQL on AWS and Azure
• Participate in our on-call rotations for troubleshooting production issues