Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organisations to safely embrace this new era.
\nWe are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
\nThe PAM Team
\nEver wonder how large organisations make sure the right people can access their most critical systems? That's the problem the Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team solves. Our solution controls who can reach sensitive servers, databases and cloud resources and grants access only when it's needed. It is the security layer between people (and non-human-identities) and the systems they need to do their jobs.
\nThe Staff Backend Engineer Opportunity
\nWe're looking for a Backend Software Engineer who wants to work on hard problems: distributed systems and building software where getting it right really matters. You'll ship code that protects real infrastructure for real organisations. You’ll build foundations that multiple feature teams depend on. When you make something faster, more reliable, or easier to use, it multiplies across the entire product.
\nThis is a role for someone who likes thinking about how systems fit together. You'll need strong opinions about what makes a good abstraction, and the flexibility to evolve those abstractions as the product grows.
\nWhat you’ll be doing
\nBe deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
\nWork in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
\nBe responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
\nDesign and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
\nWork on backend systems written in Go
\nParticipate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams
\nWhat you’ll bring to the role
\n8+ years of experience as a SWE
\nAre an experienced software engineer with a background in Golang (other languages are also acceptable)
\nExperienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
\nHave the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
\nHave experience working with cloud services like Caching, Queues, NoSQL Databases etc.
\nExperienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
\nThrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
\nLove thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design.
\nEnjoy deep-diving into production metrics, and familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, DataDog etc.
\nThink in terms of systems, services, and APIs
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