Senior Software Engineer @ Okta

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.

Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0 technology, is an easy to implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.

Our commitment to identity inspires and sustains our Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging strategy as we aim to celebrate and protect the identities of everyone in our network. Click here to learn more about our commitment to building balanced teams.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our User Management team. This team is responsible for building the next generation of flows that millions of users around the world will see when trying to access their accounts and sign up for a service for our Customer Identity Cloud.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Product and Security teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s platform and architecture.
Design, architect, and document large-scale distributed systems.
Implement features across different layers of the stack using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
Drive technical decision-making while striving to hit the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, and performance.
Participate in the team’s on-call rotations to make sure we offer our customers the best availability for our services.
Identify and resolve production issues and implement fixes for them.
Contribute to improving Auth0’s architecture, performance, observability, security controls, and best practices.

A great candidate will have:

Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable systems at scale.
Application security and cloud security best practices.
Previous experience in software development building distributed systems (Node.js and/or Go).
Exposure to API-driven applications using RESTful and/or gRPC.
Experience with container deployments.
3+ years of experience working on large-scale systems or services.

Nice to have:

Experience with Identity SaaS applications.

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The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$149,000—$216,000 USD

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, 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/us.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:

$135,000—$196,000 USD

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

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Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging 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/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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Senior Software Engineer

User Management, Customer Identity

Okta

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