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Associate Software Engineer in Test, Customer Identity Cloud, New Graduate (May/June 2024 Start)

Okta

Okta

Software Engineering, Customer Service
Canada
Posted on Monday, December 11, 2023

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.

Get to know Okta

Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 10,000 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every 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 Quality 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. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. The Quality team within CIC is responsible for driving the culture of quality across the organization.

Location: Canada

The Quality Engineer Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager of the Performance and Resilience group within Quality Engineering, this role will focus on ensuring that the products being developed and delivered meet the required scaling, load and resiliency requirements. This involves working closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement quality control processes and identifying and addressing product quality issues.

This opportunity requires someone who is passionate about quality, a self-starter, intellectually curious, has experience designing and executing performance tests, and a systematic approach to troubleshooting.

What you’ll be doing

  • Design and implement frameworks, infrastructure and automation to protect and optimize critical system resources
  • Create and maintain non-functional tests, critical to Okta’s mission of Performance, Scale and Resiliency.
  • Develop backend frameworks and tools for the entire engineering organization to use at scale
  • Monitor, debug, extend and enhance services and frameworks the team owns

What you’ll bring to the role

  • You have experience using Node.js (JavaScript or Typescript)
  • You like working on systems that are highly-reliable, maintainable and scalable
  • You work autonomously but know when to seek help from your team members
  • You are a good communicator and bring the rest of your team along for the journey
  • Graduated within the past 12 months, or will be graduating by May/June 2024, with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or has completed an Engineering Bootcamp program within the same time frame.

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

  • Experience with Kubernetes, microservices and public cloud technologies/infrastructure (AWS, Azure, SQL, NoSQL, Redis)
  • Knowledge of non-functional testing, specifically Performance, Load and Chaos testing
  • Experience using and integrating non-functional testing tools such as artillery, steadybit,
  • You have experience in the identity and access management (IAM) domain
  • Knowledge of security engineering and application security
  • You have experience working with a fully distributed, remote team

As part of our growth, we are committed to building an inclusive work environment where all feel welcomed as their authentic selves—inclusive of all genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, races, education, ages, or other personal characteristics.

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What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

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. 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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