7 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a scalable infrastructure-as-code platform runtime across Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure.
- Architect resilient infrastructure for cross-cutting platform concerns such as service discovery and routing.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and improve platform resiliency, scalability, and cost.
- Use DataDog and Prometheus to design SLIs and enforce platform SLOs.
- Design secure-by-default infrastructure and coordinate with security teams on compliance.
- Lead complex cross-functional initiatives and align teams around technical strategies.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Lead incident response, drive root-cause analyses, and implement preventative measures.
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of software development experience.
- Deep expertise in Golang, Terraform, Kubernetes, and major cloud providers such as AWS and Azure.
- Experience architecting distributed systems and making complex technical tradeoffs.
- Strong operational experience with incident response, root-cause analyses, and preventative measures.
- Experience experimenting with AI models and evaluating different effort levels and contexts.
- Advanced Kubernetes experience, including autoscaling, KEDA, or KNative, is preferred.
- Performance or load-testing expertise is preferred.
- Experience with Redis, Kafka, and/or PostgreSQL at scale is preferred.
- Experience building with agentic AI is preferred.
- Ability to work effectively on a fully distributed remote team.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $136,000–$187,000 CAD for candidates located in Canada.
- Equity where applicable, bonus, health, dental, and vision insurance.
- RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- Fully distributed remote team with an immersive in-person onboarding experience.
- Global community spanning more than 20 offices and opportunities for talent development and connection.
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About Okta
Okta builds cloud-based identity and access management for enterprises and developers, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management. It sells subscription SaaS as the Okta Workforce Identity and Customer Identity Clouds; the latter incorporates Auth0, acquired in 2021. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Okta is a public company traded on Nasdaq.