Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with strong leadership potential to join our Cloud Tooling and Pipelines team. This team plays a pivotal role in our engineering operations organization, responsible for the strategy, development, and operation of our core Continuous Delivery (CD) platform ( Spinnaker, some custom tools and Argo Suite in the future ) and a comprehensive set of tools and microservices. These systems are essential for managing our extensive resource footprint across AWS ECS and EKS.

As a Senior Engineer, you'll be a key technical leader, driving the architectural direction and implementation of scalable and reliable tooling for automating critical processes. This includes enhancing our capabilities in infrastructure changes, vulnerability remediation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployments. Your expertise will be vital in mentoring other engineers and influencing the team's technical roadmap. If you possess a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure automation and are driven to solve complex challenges at scale, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

• Shape the Technical Roadmap of the CD Platform: Be a core technical contributor and leader in defining the strategic direction for Okta's Continuous Delivery (CD) platform (including Spinnaker) and its future evolution.
• Architect and Design Scalable Deployment Pipelines: Lead the design and architecture of robust CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) executions, and code deployment workflows built on the underlying platform.
• Design and Implement Critical Infrastructure Tooling: Architect, build, maintain, and deploy sophisticated tools that enable Okta's engineers to execute infrastructure production changes and deploy code with high reliability and efficiency.
• Develop High-Quality Microservices: Design and build scalable and reliable microservices (potentially in Java, Python, or Go) with a strong focus on automation and operational excellence.
• Collaborate on Cross-Functional Solutions: Partner with Operations and Product teams to proactively identify bottlenecks and manual processes, and contribute significantly to the design and implementation of scalable and reliable solutions.
• Introduce and Evangelize Industry Best Practices: Research and advocate for the adoption of industry best practices in infrastructure, automation, and orchestration to drive innovation and future infrastructure improvements.
• Embed Security into Development Practices: Apply and promote security best practices in the development of microservices and tooling to ensure a secure infrastructure stack.
• Identify and Drive Self-Service Automation: Proactively identify opportunities for automation that can be self-serviced by engineering teams, contributing to reduced manual effort and improved onboarding experiences.

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

• 4+ years of Software Development in Java, Go, Python or similar backend languages
• 3+ years of development experience building services, internal tools and frameworks 
• 2+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, ECS, Istio, Spinnaker
• Working knowledge of database technologies ( Mysql, MongoDB etc)
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
• Proficient using Docker and supporting infrastructure and strong Linux and networking fundamentals