Principal Data Engineer, Okta
Product Data
$176-270.6k
Salary varies depending on location. Plus equity (where applicable), and bonus
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Job no longer available
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$176-270.6k
Salary varies depending on location. Plus equity (where applicable), and 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: 10+ years in a data engineering role, with proven experience in a senior or lead capacity. Experience with Federal government compliance and security requirements is highly desirable
- Product knowledge: Deep expertise in product behavioral data engineering - specifically in telemetry data, including structured data for product launch analysis, feature usage, retention and other critical product lifecycle metrics
- Proven experience working closely with Product Engineering teams to partner on successful instrumentation for data collection
- Technical Expertise: Expert-level experience with SQL, ETL/ELT tools (Airflow, dbt), and MPP databases (Snowflake, Redshift). Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services (S3, Lambda, EMR, ECR, EKS)
- Modern Architectures: Deep experience designing and working with lakehouse architectures (Databricks) and modern file formats (Iceberg, Delta)
What the job involves
- Okta’s Data Engineering team is on a mission to accelerate Okta’s scale and growth by building platforms that are utilized across the organization. With the growth of AI in our Products and our business, Okta’s data is more critical to our success than ever. As a Principal Data Engineer on the Data and Insights team, you will be a key technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining our most critical and scalable data solutions
- This role will work closely with our Product Engineering teams to ensure that valuable user behavior on our products is captured in an efficient and scalable manner, unlocking insights that will drive adoption and growth. This involves leading projects and collaborating closely with product engineers, analytic engineers, data analysts and data scientists to ensure data availability and integrity
- As a Principal member of the team you will have a proven ability to tie engineering initiatives to product and business impact. You will also demonstrate a strong sense of judgement, and the ability to influence across the organization
- Design, build and evolve high scale data solutions that serve as the reference architecture for the organization and simplifying data access across the organization
- Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting, with governance, lineage tracking, and change management rigor appropriate for externally reported numbers
- Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, documentation norms, and metric governance standards across the data organization
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across data verticals to accelerate delivery and harden data systems
- Navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term infrastructure investment
- Champion Data Contracts: implement data contracts and schema evolution practices to ensure reliability across global product teams
- Mentor and Scale: Raise the technical bar by mentoring senior engineers, leading cross functional task forces, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence and data driven decision making
- Stay at the forefront of the data landscape, adopting and advocating for emerging technologies and practices to guide the team’s long-term technical direction
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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