Software Engineer

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Workflows Team

Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. It integrates directly with an organization’s existing services such as directories and identity systems, as well as many other applications.

Because Okta runs the integration workflow platform, organizations can implement the workflows quickly at large scale and low total cost. Hundreds of customers, including NTT, and MGM, trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue and stay secure.

The Software Engineer Opportunity

We are looking for a curious and driven software developer to work on our Workflows back-end Team. This team is responsible for building secure, scalable, and robust backend workflow services. This is an opportunity to leverage your experience developing highly scalable cloud applications while building new skills in Workflows. You will get an opportunity to solve hard problems around building next gen Workflow services and scaling the existing service.

Our team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly, agile release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management.
• Engage with and analyze the Workflow service to ensure high reliability and bring new ideas to the product road map.
• Work with software development management to scope and plan engineering efforts.
• Design and implement core, high-performance, scalable software components and microservices.
• Perform Test-driven development, design and code reviews.
• Interface with QA, Product Management, Technical Support, Documentation and UX teams,
• Investigate and drive live site issues as appropriate.
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• 3+ years of software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software.
• BS Computer Science or related field.
• Live Site experience.
• Experience with Java, Rust or C++.
• Experience working with cloud scale systems.
• Excellent grasp of software development principles.
• Experience developing back end web applications.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience implementing programming language concepts (scheduling, type systems, etc.)
  
  

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

• Experience with operating systems.
• Expertise in Redis.
• Experience with RabbitMQ/AMQP.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with JavaScript.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with implementing a compiler.
• Experience developing full stack web applications.
  
  

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:

$106,000—$160,000 USD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
  
  

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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