Software Architect, Okta
Customer Identity
$208-325k
Salary applicable to California, Colorado, New York, and Washington candidates only and varies dependent on those locations
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
$208-325k
Salary applicable to California, Colorado, New York, and Washington candidates only and varies dependent on those locations
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable systems at scale
- Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to adjust your communication style to the intended audience, whether communicating with senior executives, customers, engineers, or product managers
- Strong analytical skills to investigate performance, find bottlenecks, and suggest tractable optimizations. Prior experience with application performance management, tracing, and performance testing tools are a plus
- Previous experience in software development building distributed systems (Node.js and/or Go preferred but not required)
- Exposure to API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC
- Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for technical initiatives
- Ability to lead and resolve company-wide technical discussions
- Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments
- Great ability to build trust through collaboration with multiple teams and get consensus on a vision
- Knowledge of application security and cloud security best practices
- 10+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of experience working on cloud applications
- Successful candidates will have a passion for building reliable and scalable distributed systems, a technical background, hands-on experience in developing cloud systems at scale, a solid understanding of architecture-based security issues, experience application and platform architecture, and the ability to collaborate with others to drive initiatives forward
What the job involves
- Okta is looking for an Architect to work in our Engineering Architecture team, reporting directly to our Vice President of Architecture & Chief Architect
- The Architecture team is a small group of very senior engineers who work broadly across the organization with Engineering, Product, and Security
- We embed closely with other Engineering teams for large projects, and provide direction and architectural guidance for smaller initiatives
- We have a dual-pronged charter to “level up the tech stack and level up the people stack” via both technical contributions and partnerships/mentoring
- In this role, you will have the opportunity to significantly contribute to Okta’s future technology direction
- Through your experience, knowledge of industry trends, technical abilities, and knowledge you will produce guidance, proof of concepts, and production implementations that help CIC Engineering teams move faster by using and developing standard patterns and technologies
- You will also help advance the engineering culture and help uplevel other engineers
- As part of a team of seasoned Architects, you will collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve CIC’s technology stack and architecture
- Develop and drive the implementation of a platform architecture that supports Engineering’s goals and deliverables, through strategy, design, requirements, and code
- Investigate, understand, and resolve bottlenecks in our ability to scale, use resources efficiently, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA
- Embed closely with Engineering teams across the organization for large projects while providing guidance and lighter touch engagements for smaller initiatives
- Design, architect, and document large scale distributed systems
- Implement features across different teams using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
- Drive technical decision making while striving to hit the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance
- Contribute to improving Okta’s product architecture patterns, security controls and best practices
- Participate in “round table” discussions and mentor team members and engineers throughout the organization to level up our people
- Participate in our Engineering Leadership Team with other architects, directors, and executives
- Undergo training as an Incident Commander and join on-call rotation for major incidents
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. It aims 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(Co-Founder & CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Co-Founder & Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
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