# Senior Software Engineer, Datastores

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Toronto, Canada
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** CA$136k – CA$187k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Distributed Systems, Datastore Reliability, DevOps
**Posted:** 2026-08-07

> Build and operate highly available datastore infrastructure and platform tooling supporting Auth0’s large-scale services. The role requires 5–8 years of software development experience, infrastructure automation expertise, cloud experience, and familiarity with databases and reliability engineering.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop large, distributed, highly available infrastructure.
- Implement platform tools that allow feature teams to deploy and manage datastores for their services.
- Research technologies to accelerate new environment creation.
- Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end, including code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, and security hygiene.
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation.

## Requirements
- 5–8 years of software development experience.
- Proficiency in or willingness to learn Golang.
- Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform.
- Experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD.
- Experience with data storage systems at scale, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB.
- Familiarity with datastore reliability, standard configurations, latency, throughput, availability, utilization indicators, and performance analysis.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services.
- Ability to deliver work incrementally, gather feedback, and iterate.
- Passion for building highly reliable, maintainable, scalable, and secure systems.
- Ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
- Comfort working on a fully distributed team.

## Nice to Have
- Database experience.
- DevOps experience using cloud-agnostic and cloud-native technologies.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: **$136,000–$187,000 CAD** for candidates located in Canada.
- Equity, where applicable, bonus, health, dental, and vision insurance.
- RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.

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