Senior Software Engineer, PAM
Okta INC · 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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. 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. We're looking for a Senior level Platform Engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who are proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative, and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership, we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever. What you’ll do • Leverage cutting-edge AI pair-programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products. • Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Kubernetes/EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, MKS, Redis, OpenSearch, Docker, Terraform on AWS) • Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of microservices • Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business. • Evaluate and scale existing systems to meet specialized requirements and support Okta’s future business needs. • Lead design and code reviews to ensure systems are scalable, redundant, and multi-tenant. high programming standards by writing unit and functional tests. • Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix services and frameworks the team owns • Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers • Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers What you’ll bring • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent. • 5+ years of extensive programming experience in modern programming languages like Go, Java, or C++ especially in backend services. Go is preferred. • Proven track record of architecting, deploying, and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructure with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and AWS container environments. • Solid technical grasp of architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world • A good understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms • Experience with fundamental Cloud building blocks like IaC, Observability, Secrets Management, CI / CD pipelines, secure coding practices, and compliance. • Deep understanding of REST APIs and proven experience building and integrating them. • Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker • Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization • Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles • Familiarity with Agile software development process Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent P21999_3542690 Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your