Senior Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure

• Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Docker, Terraform on AWS)
• Drive evaluation, development and rollout of new common features and frameworks
• Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.
• Conduct design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standards by writing unit and functional tests.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and fix services and frameworks the team owns
• Evaluate system performance and resolve bottlenecks
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers
• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers

• Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth
• Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred.
• 5+ yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A superior understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, memory management.

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.  As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
• Requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office or our Chicago office during the first week of employment.

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• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

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