1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and scale the Control Server, APIs, and CLI tools managing environment lifecycles.
- Develop backend logic for automated rollbacks, hotfixes, and release patching.
- Enhance automated provisioners for self-service, high-fidelity test environments.
- Implement event publishing pipelines for reliable environment state-change communication.
- Improve developer experience through intuitive CLI and API interfaces, clear documentation, and actionable error messages.
- Collaborate with Product, Security, and Quality Engineering teams on lifecycle workflows and platform standards.
- Participate in the team’s goalie rotation supporting build and production operations.
Requirements
- Require 3+ years of software development experience focused on APIs, CLI tools, or backend services.
- Require understanding of backend and distributed-systems fundamentals, including RESTful APIs, state management, idempotency, and asynchronous workflows.
- Require hands-on experience with Go or Rust, C++, or Java.
- Require practical experience provisioning or managing cloud infrastructure with AWS or Azure, programmatically or through Infrastructure as Code.
- Require foundational knowledge of IAM, OAuth2, and OIDC concepts.
- Require a focus on developer experience, reliable and well-tested code, failure modes, network timeouts, and edge cases.
- Preferred experience includes PostgreSQL or relational databases, Kubernetes internals, custom controllers or operators, Terraform provider development, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range for candidates located in Canada is $114,000—$157,300 CAD.
- Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- The role is marked hybrid and includes an immersive in-person onboarding experience.
- Okta supports well-being, social impact, talent development, and workplace connection across its global offices.
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.