Staff Backend Software Engineer, Okta
Backend
CA$160-220k
+ Equity (where applicable) + Bonus
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Open for applications
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$160-220k
+ Equity (where applicable) + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for someone who likes thinking about how systems fit together
- You'll need strong opinions about what makes a good abstraction, and the flexibility to evolve those abstractions as the product grows
- 8+ years of experience as a SWE
- Are an experienced software engineer with a background in Golang (other languages are also acceptable)
- Experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies
- Ability to design database models and backend APIs
- Experience working with cloud services like Caching, Queues, NoSQL Databases etc
- Experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
- Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership
- Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design
- Enjoy deep-diving into production metrics, and familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, DataDog etc
- Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs
- Required education and experience:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of technical leadership and increasing scope
- Experience working with production systems
- Bachelors in CS, or equivalent
What the job involves
- Ever wonder how large organizations make sure the right people can access their most critical systems? That's the problem we solve
- The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale
- Our team builds the infrastructure that controls who can reach sensitive servers, databases, and cloud resources, grants access only when it's needed. It is the security layer between people (and non-human-interfaces) and the systems they need to do their jobs
- We're looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer who wants to work on hard problems: distributed systems and building software where getting it right really matters
- You'll ship code that protects real infrastructure for real organizations
- You’ll build foundations that multiple feature teams depend on
- When you make something faster, more reliable, or easier to use, it multiplies across the entire product
- Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM
- Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform
- Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns
- Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure
- Work on backend systems written in Go
- Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams
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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