Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Engineering Services Team
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.
The Full stack Opportunity
Okta’s Developer Foundations team is looking for a lead Software Engineer to help us scale and increase developer velocity in our Internal Developer Platform. You will be driving and perfecting our vision of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, increasing the velocity and productivity of engineering. You will work with a wide range of stakeholders and partners, including Engineers, Architects, Operations, Program Management, and Quality. We have a great team driving innovative projects – join us and bring your ideas!
What you'll be doing
- Drive the long-term architecture of our CI/CD platform and developer tools; be the thought Leader in optimizing for developer productivity.
- Design CI and automation components for the scale of Okta with over 55 million tests run a day at peak.
- Set direction and influence the development of tools that support the end to end lifecycle of code management
- Act as an innovator by advising, recommending and managing the introduction of new technology and practices
- Consults with other architects across the R&D and Infrastructure Engineering teams to ensure our solution is addressing top concerns of engineers
- Build high quality tools and automation for internal use to support continuous integration, continuous delivery, and developer productivity.
- Design software or customize software for engineering use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency.
- Provide technical input by implementing Proof of Concept, influence the choice of the right technology, contribute to existing frameworks, and reviewing design and code.
- Roll out deliverables to internal customers in phases, monitor adoption, collect feedback, and fine-tune the project to respond to internal customers’ needs.
- Support pre-prod infrastructure in the cloud--monitoring, backup and restore, SLA, cost control, deployment.
What you'll bring to the role
- In-depth understanding of application development, micro services architecture and successful elements of a multi-service ecosystem
- In-depth knowledge of large scale and high transactional continuous integration systems aimed at performance, accuracy and stability.
- Experience building Developer Productivity applications with developer experience in mind.
- Expert at building and deploying full stack applications from ideation to delivery.
- Expert at Git, maven, build automation tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions)
- Experience with public cloud (AWS, GCP), its services, and its supporting tools (cost control, reporting, environment management).
- Experience working with Gradle, Bazel, Artifactory, Docker Registry, npm registry, Github Administration.
- Experience in Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience in developing/managing infrastructure as service is a plus.
- B.S. in CS or equivalent
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:$177,000—$265,000 CADWhat you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
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- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
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