Senior Platform Engineer, Okta

• We are looking for a Senior Engineer who is passionate about building robust orchestration systems, idempotent APIs, and high-quality developer tooling
• Have 5+ years of software development experience, specifically building APIs, CLI tools, or backend orchestration logic
• Are proficient in Golang (our core language for control plane services)
• Have a deep understanding of distributed systems patterns, specifically idempotency, state machines, and eventual consistency
• Have demonstrable expertise managing cloud resources (AWS/Azure) via code, specifically for automated provisioning
• Have experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) or OIDC/OAuth2 flows, as you will be responsible for the primary entry point into our platform
• Prioritize developer experience - you understand that a bad CLI error message or a friction-filled auth flow can cost an engineer hours of productivity
• Bring a Tier-1 Service mindset: you write code that handles edge cases, network partitions, and partial failures gracefully
• Tend to deliver work incrementally to get feedback and iterate over solutions
• Have a relentless passion for ownership, accountability, and diving into complexity to deliver highly reliable and performant systems
• We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences

Desirable

• The Platform Control team enables Auth0 engineers to move faster by giving them tools to easily deploy and manage their services on AWS and Azure
• This is a role with a huge impact
• You will get to work with engineers throughout the organization and what you build will be a foundational piece of the infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come
• Because we build the "brain" of the platform - handling everything from environment provisioning to emergency rollbacks, the ideal candidate is someone who is obsessed with system state consistency and creating a seamless, self-service experience for other engineers
• Design and develop the Control Server, API, and CLI that manage the lifecycle of our thousands of environments, from initial creation and provisioning to decommissioning
• Build the logic that powers automated rollbacks, hotfixes, and release patching, ensuring that deployments are safe, predictable, and reversible
• Develop and maintain automated provisioners that allow product teams to responsibly utilize and spin up high-fidelity test environments without manual intervention
• Implement Event Publishing for platform entities, ensuring that changes to the environment state are broadcasted reliably to downstream systems
• Owning the interface. You will ensure the platform CLI and API are intuitive, well-documented, and provide clear feedback to engineers during complex operations
• Collaborate with Product, Platform, Security, and Quality Engineering teams to translate complex business requirements into automated lifecycle workflows
• You will establish technical standards for API and CLI design, ensuring that security policies and quality gates are integrated seamlessly into the deployment and release processes
• Participate in the team's goalie rotation when production incidents require build support