Principal Software Engineer
Leads a team building and operating resilient, high-performance backend platform services and shared cloud infrastructure for Okta. The role requires 12+ years of programming experience, strong Java and distributed-systems expertise, and hands-on knowledge of AWS and modern backend technologies.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects using Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform, and AWS.
- Evaluate, develop, and roll out common microservices.
- Operate, support, upgrade, and scale shared services and frameworks.
- Participate in design and code reviews and uphold high programming standards through unit and functional testing.
- Participate in an on-call roster; monitor and troubleshoot owned services and frameworks.
- Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security, and operations engineers.
- Mentor new engineering hires and interns.
Requirements
- Strong experience architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging services in cloud-native environments.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 12+ years of programming experience in an object-oriented language such as Java, particularly backend services.
- Understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.
- 7+ years of experience with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems.
- Experience with REST and its fundamentals.
- Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Tomcat.
- Knowledge of AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Docker.
- Demonstrated adherence to software engineering principles.
- Familiarity with Agile software development.
Nice to Have
- Experience maintaining security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure.
- Experience using major public cloud providers to build mission-critical distributed systems for high availability and scale.
- Experience developing Kubernetes-based services on AWS.
Skills
Java, MySQL, Rest, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Tomcat, AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Agile
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