Staff Software Engineer, Okta
Performance Tuning, Customer Identity Cloud
CA$135-203k
+ Bonus
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Open for applications
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$135-203k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in senior software engineering roles in a remote work environment
- Strong self-motivation and aptitude for investigation and experimentation
- Experience developing application software in Node.js using frameworks such as Hapi.js or Fastify. Familiarity with Golang is also a plus
- Experience with API-driven cloud-native distributed system application architecture running in Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure
- Experience with APM tools such as Datadog APM, Splunk, Honeycomb, New Relic, Dynatrace, or similar
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Experience designing and executing performance experiments designed to validate performance improvements in key metrics such as requests per second (RPS), P95 and P99 latency, query performance, request concurrency, CPU/memory utilization, and cost efficiency
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. In particular, the ability to convey technical issues and solutions in written form and work with disparate teams is important in a remote-friendly team
- Passion for driving performance improvement in software without sacrificing reliability or security
- Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration. One team, one score!
What the job involves
- Okta is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Performance Engineering team
- Okta’s customer identity business is growing and evolving quickly
- Traffic volume has grown substantially and new features are continually introduced
- As a cloud-based SaaS provider, bringing scalable, high performance identity solutions to production at an attractive price is a priority for our business
- The Performance Engineering team has a cross-functional charter that involves investigating, identifying, and remediating performance bottlenecks across all parts of our distributed system machinery
- This includes the code we write, datastores, messaging systems, infrastructure, and the points at which different parts of the system communicate with one another
- The Performance Engineering team works closely with component owners, test engineers, and architects to identify performance bottlenecks, and then develops software changes or other recommendations to improve performance
- As a Staff Engineer, you will perform analysis and write code to remove performance bottlenecks throughout our software
- Develop software in Node.js and some Golang in multiple services that will run in production and help us serve billions of logins per month
- Write decision records and RFC’s to communicate technical tradeoffs and approaches and drive awareness and consensus
- You will work cross-functionally with service owners, architects, project managers, as well as platform and quality teams to drive performance improvements across our tech stack
- You will nurture a “shift left” culture for performance. You will work to improve knowledge and awareness of performance management techniques, tools, patterns, and solutions throughout Engineering in order to address performance issues earlier in the software development life cycle
- You will have the opportunity to work with all parts of the Customer Identity Cloud service offering, including code, infrastructure, and architecture
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
Some 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.
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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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