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OktaOktaSan Francisco, CA

Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Staff backend engineer building and scaling Okta's shared cloud infrastructure and services (search, cache, async jobs, email pipelines) on AWS/Kubernetes. Requires 8+ years Java/backend experience, Kubernetes, databases, and mentorship skills.

194k – 267k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

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. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.
  • Conduct design and code reviews. Ensure 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.

Requirements

  • Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth.
  • Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
  • 8+ years of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A superior understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, memory management.
  • 3+ years experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing databases and fine tuning queries is a plus.
  • 3+ years experience developing, operating, optimizing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes. Experience with AWS EKS is a plus, so is experience with GCP.
  • Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and thorough understanding of its fundamentals. Knowledge of gRPC is a plus.
  • Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Tomcat, AWS, Redis, and Docker.
  • Knowledge of network security, authentication and authorization.
  • Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS as a good-to-have.
  • Familiarity with Agile software development process.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Master's degree.
  • Experience with AWS EKS.
  • Experience with GCP.
  • Knowledge of gRPC.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS.

Skills

JavaKubernetesMySQLSpring BootAWSRedisDockerTerraformresthibernatetomcatgRPC

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