Senior Software Engineer, Non-Human Identity

The Team

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. 

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the building blocks of the Non-Human Identity product.

What you’ll do

• Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
• Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
• Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
• Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
• Work on backend systems and service daemons written in Go
• Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years of experience as a backend software engineer, with Bachelors in CS or equivalent.
• In-depth proficiency in Golang (Go) or programming languages with memory pointers. 
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure and DevOps toolings including Kubernetes, Hashicorp, Terraform, and Hashicorp Vault.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS.
• Ability to design robust database models and backend APIs, thinking in terms of systems, services, and API boundaries.
• Experience with Linux shell scripting and multiple operating system development (Windows, macOS, Linux). 
• Familiarity with common development tools (Git/GitHub, Make, OpenAPI, Docker) and IDEs (IntelliJ/Goland).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (IP addressing, routing, firewalls).
• Understanding of non-HTTP protocols (SSH, RDP, TLS, LDAP, etc.) and PKI-related concepts (asymmetric keys, trust stores, JWTs).
• Experience working in a production environment, ability to do analysis and refactor prior to implementation, and comfortability resolving ambiguity in requirements.

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! 

• Ability to thrive in a collaborative Agile environment built on end-to-end ownership, providing and receiving code reviews.
• You have experience outside of a standard three-tier monolith (frontend talks to backend talks to database).
• Experience working with existing codebases and production systems.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux.

This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our Toronto office.

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