Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Staff Backend Engineer building scalable Go services and APIs for Okta's Privileged Access Management platform. Focus on distributed systems, database design, and production reliability for enterprise security infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Evolve the core architecture of Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Build scalable, composable components of the platform
- Design and implement scalable architecture patterns
- Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification
- Work on backend systems written in Go
- Participate in rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams
Requirements
- 8+ years working as a software engineer
- Experience working with production systems
- Bachelor's in CS, or equivalent
- Background in Golang (other languages acceptable)
- Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS
- Ability to design database models and backend APIs
- Experience with cloud services like Caching, Queues, NoSQL Databases
- Experience with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience with distributed systems, reliability, availability, and performance implications
- Familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, DataDog
Nice-to-Haves
- Thrive in a collaborative environment with end-to-end ownership
- Enjoy deep-diving into production metrics
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