2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with product management, engineering directors, and principal architects to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
- Drive collaboration with Product, Design, and QA to deliver critical engineering initiatives.
- Lead the design and implementation of features and services within the core Java platform from conception through deployment.
- Define engineering best practices and contribute to technical designs, proposals, and architectural decisions.
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers, guide technical design reviews, and raise engineering standards across the organization.
- Develop maintainable software with comprehensive test coverage and improve testing and CI/CD strategies.
- Create technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing.
- Champion AI-native engineering practices using AI coding assistants while maintaining security and code quality.
- Identify emerging trends and prototype solutions in device security and AI-native development.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software development experience designing and building scalable, high-performance server-side features with Java and Spring.
- Deep experience with Postgres or MySQL, including schema design and query optimization.
- Extensive experience designing, building, and securing RESTful APIs for large-scale systems.
- Expertise in caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading.
- Understanding of design patterns, scalability patterns, security engineering, and object-oriented principles.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and fast-paced agile environments.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction.
- Deep understanding of endpoint security concepts, including TPM, Secure Enclave, device management/MDM protocols, and endpoint detection.
- Conceptual understanding of how iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS security features report state to the cloud.
- Proficiency with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot.
- Preferred experience with anomaly detection systems, risk systems, cloud security, identity, authentication protocols, or Identity and Access Management technologies.
- Preferred understanding of FIDO, U2F, WebAuthn, SSO, SAML, OAuth, and federation.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and secure coding practices; CISSP or Security+ certification is advantageous.
- Experience with ReactJS, gRPC API development, or microservice architecture is advantageous.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- RRSP with a match
- Healthcare spending account
- Telemedicine
- Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Immersive in-person onboarding experience
- Equity and bonus may be available
Tech Stack
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.