SW-Engineer - Senior

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Auth0 platform secures more than 100 million logins each day for customers all around the world - and we're growing fast! The Platform Runtime team enables Auth0 engineers to move faster by giving them the foundational infrastructure to deploy and manage their services on AWS and Azure. This is a role with a huge impact. You will get to work with engineers throughout the organization and what you build will be a foundational piece of the infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come. We are looking for a Senior Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, availability, and delivering customer value. Because we build and support the overall Auth0 platform, the ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about low level infrastructure, operations, and not intimidated by cross-organization coordination and collaboration. YOU WILL: * Serve as the ultimate technical authority and final escalation point for advanced Kubernetes cluster troubleshooting, ensuring the continuous stability and resilience of our foundational infrastructure. * Define and enforce organization-wide standards and architectural guidelines for Terraform. You will maintain core provider functionality and oversee critical security protocols, including automated credential rotation machinery. * Develop and maintain application deployment standards, managing Kustomize and built-ins to standardize and streamline deployments across all product teams. * Orchestrate complex GitOps workflows leveraging ArgoCD and Argo Workflows. You will take full ownership of Environment Lifecycle Management, handling everything from environment creation, synchronization, and user onboarding to failover procedures and safe deletion. * Architect the Testing Automation Framework to support dynamic environment provisioning and destruction. This will enable advanced quality assurance practices, such as chaos testing, while empowering teams to manage their own test workflows. * Oversee the Control Plane infrastructure, guaranteeing operational stability and managing essential platform services, including HashiCorp Vault and our fleet of self-hosted GitHub Action Runners. * Lead the intra-space network architecture, driving the implementation, management, and scaling of our Service Mesh to ensure secure and efficient service-to-service communication. * Participate in the team's on-call rotation. YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU: * Have 5+ years of software development experience, specifically working with infrastructure or platform. * Are proficient in Golang. * Have a deep understanding of Kubernetes and containerization. * Have DevOps experience using cloud-agnostic, cloud-native technologies. * Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP and HTTP fundamentals. * Have demonstrable expertise managing cloud resources (AWS/Azure) via code, specifically for automated provisioning. * Have experience managing infrastructure with Terraform at scale. * Bring a Tier-1 Service mindset: you write code that handles edge cases, network partitions, and partial failures gracefully. * Tend to deliver work incrementally to get feedback and iterate over solutions. * Have a passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure. * Bring the right attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, and attention to detail. * Are comfortable working on a fully-distributed team. * Have a relentless passion for ownership, accountability, and diving into complexity to deliver highly reliable and performant systems. EXTRA POINTS: * Significant experience with PostgreSQL for managing complex, relational entity state. * Experience building custom Kubernetes controllers or extending Terraform providers. * Familiarity with gRPC for high-performance internal service communication.   #LI-Hybrid P24752 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: $136,000—$187,000 CAD The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta's Identity Governance (OIG) organization is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team — a team that is directly responsible for one of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how employees request, approve, and gain access to the resources they need.    Opportunity As a Senior Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved in development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale. You will involve the architecture and evolution of our product features — spanning the across different access governance personas — and work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design to deliver features that are secure, scalable, and delightful to use. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, leads with craft, and is energized by the challenge of building enterprise-grade software that millions of users depend on. This is a rare opportunity to join a team where your technical decisions will directly shape how thousands of enterprises manage access governance at scale, where the technical challenges are genuinely hard, and where the work you ship will be seen and felt by real users every day.   Job Duties And Responsibilities * Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring * Design, build, and ship high-quality, production-ready features across the OIG system, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance * Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues * Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold yourself and teammates to a high bar for engineering quality * Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities * 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver complex features in a production environment  * Experience in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale * Solid experience with one or more of: Java, Kotlin, Go, or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages used in Okta's backend stack * Practical experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment  * Ability to produce clear technical designs and documentation, communicate trade-offs effectively, and build consensus with teammates * Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate and reason about complex, multi-service systems * A track record of delivering features with high quality — including meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end test coverage * Good communication skills and a collaborative working style — comfortable working across engineering, product, and design   PREFERRED IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING! * Experience building identity, access management, or governance (IAM/IGA) products or platforms * Familiarity with workflow engines or approval/routing systems * Experience working in multi-tenant SaaS environments serving enterprise customers * Practical experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)   Education  * B.S. Computer Science or equivalent #LI-Hybrid #LI-MA1 P25269_3477633 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: $136,000—$187,000 CAD The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.