Staff Software Engineer, Okta

• A continuous improvement and collaborative mindset
• A bias for action and appetite for learning
• A passion for authorization and the entire identity space
• An attitude that builds up and creates multipliers across the team
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Expertise in software development building distributed systems in Go
• Experience building developer-friendly, API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC
• Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for complex technical initiatives
• Experience building applications with amazing scale and resiliency
• Experience with stream processing tools such as Kafka, or CDC tools such as Debezium
• Experience with tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform

Desirable

• The Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) provides robust access management solutions, such as Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) to power customer-facing applications and websites
• FGA is a multi-Region software as a service (SaaS) offering for flexible, fine-grained authorization at any scale
• It’s based on relationship-based access control (ReBAC), which is an evolution of role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) authorization models
• Reporting to the engineering manager, this role will be influential as the product grows to a strong, mature authorization service that exceeds our customer’s needs
• Delivering features across our FGA product range using Go that are scalable, resilient, and testable
• Empowering your teammates and enhancing the abilities of those around you
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, continuous improvement, and collaboration
• Identifying opportunities for enhancing our products and development processes
• Collaborating closely with engineering and product across the Authorization domain to deliver against our product goals
• Translating complex technical requirements into clear and concise criteria for the team
• Participate in our on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues