Senior Engineer, Data Platform (Customer Identity)
Okta
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 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.
The Data Platform Team
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 over 100 million daily logins worldwide. Within CIC, the Platform Data team builds and operates scalable data pipelines/infrastructure to support event streaming, messaging, and analytics use cases.
In this high-impact role, you will have an opportunity to significantly contribute to the foundational pieces of CIC Data Platform.
The Senior Engineer Opportunity
We are looking for senior data platform engineers who are passionate about distributed systems, data infrastructure, and delivering customer value. Because we build and support infrastructure used by services throughout CIC, the ideal candidate is someone who is excited about collaborating to solve problems that affect the entire ecosystem of CIC services..
What you’ll be doing
Design, develop, and operate highly scalable software within the Data Platform with a focus on Data Privacy
Evaluate and advocate for modern technologies to accelerate value delivery and improve engineering efficiency
Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc
Participate in team’s on-call rotation to build operational excellence on services we support
What you’ll bring to the role
4+ years of software development experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
Experience building data-intensive systems leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Spark, CDC
Familiarity with modern programming languages such as python, go, JavaScript
Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker
Experience with caching systems and databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra
Experience with reliability engineering on areas such as observability and incident management
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following
Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code technologies like Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform
Familiarity with or interest in Data Privacy/Privacy Engineering
Familiarity with data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake and RedShift
Familiarity with or interest in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) business domain
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What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- 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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