Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

We are looking for a Senior Software engineer who is passionate about writing the tools to integrate and support to build large-scale, high-demand software in a fast-paced agile environment. You will share our passion for test-driven development, continuous integration and automation to produce frequent high-quality releases.

Our engineering team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to be part of a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.

You will get an opportunity to work in scaling our infrastructure to the next generation. Our scale is already huge in running tens of thousands of tests for every commit automatically. This comes with challenges in speed by reducing compute time from days to a few minutes.

Responsibilities:

- You will be part of the team that builds, maintains, and improves our highly-automated build, release and testing infrastructure.

- Scripting, tools-building, and automation are paramount to Okta Engineering; everybody automates. You will be creating and coding tools for internal use to support continuous delivery.

- Team up with Development, QA and Ops to continuously innovate and enhance our build and automation infrastructure

- Collaborate with peers and stake-holders to create new tools/process/technology. We use the latest technology from AWS and you can experiment, recommend, and implement new technologies in our build and CI system.

- Work with internal customers to roll-out projects and process, monitor adoption, collect feedback, and fine-tune the project to respond to internal customers’ needs.

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience with one or more programming languages including Python, Go, Java, Javascript

- Good understanding of application development, micro services architecture and successful elements of a multi-service ecosystem

- Ability to coordinate cross-functional work towards task completion.

- Understanding of Agile methodologies is a plus.

- Past experience working on AWS or K8S

- Good understanding of virtualization, dynamic provisioning, Docker, AWS and Linux

- Experience in Kubernetes is a plus

- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent.