Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

About the Role

Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We are in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipelines. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization, and resiliency are first-class citizens.

We are looking for a Staff-level backend engineer to join our team to own and deliver high-scale infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering teams to design, develop, and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Docker, Terraform on AWS).
• Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of new common features and frameworks.
• Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks, scaling them with business growth.
• Conduct design and code reviews, ensuring high programming standards through unit and functional tests.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues within the services and frameworks owned by the team.
• Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security, and operations engineers.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, especially in backend services.
• Superior understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.
• 3+ years of experience working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems.
• 3+ years of experience developing, operating, optimizing, and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated experience working with REST and a thorough understanding of its fundamentals.
• Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, AWS, Redis, and Docker.
• Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization.
• Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles.
• Ability to establish U.S. Person status (e.g., U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee) to access federal environments.

Preferred

• Master's degree in Computer Science.
• Experience with AWS EKS and/or GCP.
• Experience with database design and fine-tuning queries.
• Knowledge of gRPC.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS.
• Familiarity with Agile software development processes.