Principal Software Engineer

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate...

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Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like distributed cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, internal tooling...

Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform on AWS)
Drive evaluation, development and roll out of new common microservices
Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.
Help with design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standard by writing unit and functional tests.
Be part of a structured on-call roster, assist with monitoring, troubleshooting of services and frameworks the team owns
Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers
Help with mentoring new engineering hires and interns

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 services in a Cloud native environment preferably in the enterprise world
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
12+ yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A good understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, memory management.
7+ yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems. 
Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and good understanding of its fundamentals
Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and Tomcat
Knowledge of AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Docker
Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
Familiarity with Agile software development process
Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure
Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, distributed systems for high availability and scale
Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack

 
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