Staff Software Engineer, Okta

• 5+ years of software development experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Hands-on experience designing, developing and tuning highly-scalable, event-driven systems
• Strong understanding of database fundamentals and experience with event streaming technologies such as Kafka
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience with reliability engineering on areas such as data quality, observability, and incident management

Desirable

• Within CIC, the Platform Streaming Foundations team builds services and operates data pipeline infrastructure to support event streaming, messaging, and analytics use cases
• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, platform engineering, and solving data-intensive problems at scale
• In this high-impact role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come
• Writing maintainable, efficient code using proven patterns to solve complex problems
• Design, develop, and operate highly scalable services for data-intensive use cases
• Evaluate and advocate for modern technologies to accelerate value delivery and improve engineering efficiency
• Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc
• Participate in team’s on-call rotation to build operational excellence on services we support
• Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization