Engineering Architect, Okta
Identity, Auth0
$244-330k
+ 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
$244-330k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Strong understanding of identity/IAM, authentication, and authorization technologies and protocols, such as OAuth, OIDC, and SAML
- 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
- Extensive experience with modern languages and tech stacks. We focus on Node.js (Javascript or Typescript) and Go, so you’ll learn those if you’re not already experienced
- Experience with API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC
- Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments, particularly Kubernetes in AWS/Azure
- Deep 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
- Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for technical initiatives
- Ability to lead and resolve company-wide technical discussions, balancing the desire to collect opinions with the need to drive to decisions
- 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
What the job involves
- The Architecture team is a small group of very senior engineers reporting to our Senior Director of Architecture, working broadly across the organization in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Security
- We partner deeply 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, and technical abilities you will provide guidance, build proof of concepts, and deliver production software implementations that help Auth0 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
- Note that while this role involves a lot of guidance, documentation, and leadership, it also requires substantial hands-on coding and development of both applications and systems
- Using Architect-level expertise in authentication and authorization, lead initiatives to enhance, scale, and evolve Auth0’s product offerings
- As part of a team of seasoned Architects, you will collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture
- Embed within 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
- Lead the development of complex, broadly-scoped functionality in a very large and deep set of services and components
- Teach by doing: coding, optimizing, and troubleshooting Node.js and Go applications in collaboration with feature development teams
- Implement features and create consistent foundations using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
- Investigate, understand, and resolve bottlenecks in our ability to scale, use resources efficiently, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA
- Drive technical decision making while striving to find the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance
- 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
- After spending time getting acquainted with our applications, systems, and processes, you’ll go through training to join our Incident Commander on-call rotation. Members of our team do periodic on-call rotation for high-severity incidents to help up-level our responses
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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