Staff Backend Engineer, Okta

• If you are a systems programmer who thrives on influencing the design of high-performance, concurrent, and resilient security software, this is the role for you
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a heavy focus on backend or systems-level development
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• Deep, hands-on expertise in multi-platform Go development and building high-performance, concurrent applications
• Experience designing or operating distributed systems
• Experience with secure systems (authn/authz, encryption, TLS, token handling, PKI, CAs, diagnosing TLS issues)
• Deep expertise in distributed storage systems, with a focus on replication, backup, and restore, and data management. (Postgres, etc.)
• Direct experience designing, building, or contributing to a secrets management, service mesh, or machine identity platform
• Expert-level at ergonomic API design (gRPC/openAPI), and building for reliability at scale
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure

Desirable

• Ever wonder how large organizations make sure the right people can access their most critical systems? That's the problem the Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team solves
• Our solution controls who can reach sensitive servers, databases and cloud resources and grants access only when it's needed. It is the security layer between people (and non-human-identities) and the systems they need to do their jobs
• We are seeking a world-class Staff Engineer to help us architect and build the high-performance core of our non-human identity platform
• Your work, in close collaboration with our principal engineers and architects, will be the foundation of our strategy for managing privileged access in the modern enterprise
• Contribute to Core Architecture: Partner with principal engineers and architects to design and implement a low-latency, high-throughput secrets engine for non-human identities
• Solve for Massive Scale: Write highly concurrent, performance-critical code capable of handling millions of machine-to-machine authentication and authorization requests
• Shape Technical Strategy: Play a key role in defining the long-term technical roadmap for scalability and performance, ensuring our platform can meet the demands of the largest enterprises
• Mentor and Elevate: As a senior engineer on the team, you will work with junior engineers to help them advance their SDLC expertise
• On-Call: Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development team