Senior Software Engineer, Okta
Observability
$147-202k
+ Bonus
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Be an early applicant
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$147-202k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for engineers passionate about monitoring, observing, measuring uptime and availability, and ensuring platform stability. If you have experience within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) field or working as a Development Operations (DevOps) engineer, and you have a passion for Observability tooling, this position will allow you to further your learning and development in these areas
- 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience
- Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
- Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking), including establishing alerting standards, implementing tagging taxonomies, and managing Datadog configurations via Terraform
- Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks
- Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices
- Experience in coaching and mentoring more junior engineers
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and collaborate seamlessly with multiple engineering teams
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications
What the job involves
- The Auth0 Platform Observability team owns the observability tooling that monitors the Auth0 Platform, and we are looking for an Observability Engineer to help ensure that our Product and Platform Engineers can monitor and observe our platform while continuing to rapidly ship software that our customers love. Our engineers maintain and automate observability tooling for our entire platform, including metrics, logs, and traces
- As a Senior Engineer on this team, you will act as a core technical leader. You will work cross-functionally to help integrate services with our instrumentation libraries, support product teams, and actively investigate incidents to identify our observability gaps
- Proven ability to champion observability best practices, acting as an educator who can effectively correct anti-patterns and teach other engineering teams how to build robust, standardized instrumentation
- Be an expert in running services in production environments
- Contribute to the process of designing services for high growth and high availability
- Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services
- Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform
- Troubleshoot performance issues and operational issues
- Automating operational tasks and improving scripts
- Assisting with and providing feedback for performance testing and automation
- Actively participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify critical gaps in our current telemetry tooling
- Act as a technical leader, driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards across the broader engineering organization
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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