Okta

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

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4 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components.
  • Build, deploy, and optimize streaming infrastructure and distributed data-platform services.
  • Collaborate with engineers, architects, and cross-functional partners on project design and implementation.
  • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning.
  • Coach and mentor engineers to help scale the engineering organization.
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience with an object-oriented programming language, preferably Java.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-based distributed computing technologies, including Kinesis, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Beam, Snowflake, Hadoop, Kubernetes, and Mesos.
  • Experience developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems.
  • Excellent understanding of software engineering principles, multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.
  • Experience with reliability engineering involving data quality, data observability, and incident management.
  • Preferred experience with security, encryption, identity management, authentication infrastructure, major public cloud providers, large-scale data integration, batch and online systems, distributed systems, and Kubernetes-based services on AWS.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary for candidates in Canada is $160,000–$220,000 CAD, with equity where applicable and bonus eligibility.
  • Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
  • The role includes an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
  • Okta supports well-being, social impact, talent development, and community connection.

Tech Stack

Apache BeamApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkAWSElasticsearchJavaKubernetesSnowflake

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Okta

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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