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Staff Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform

Okta
Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time USD 160,000 - 220,000 p.a. Sep 17, 2026

About the Job

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...

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

Staff Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components
Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation
Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning
Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Participate in the on-call rotation, and incident management 

Required Skills & Abilities

5+ years of industry experience
2+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java 
Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including
Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka 
Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam
Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Databricks, Hadoop
Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos
Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems
Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management
Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management
Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure
Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services
Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems.
Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop
Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$160,000—$220,000 CAD
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Qualifications

Experience: 2 years experience

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