Senior Software Engineer, PAM

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're looking for a Senior level Platform Engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who are proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative, and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership, we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.

What you’ll do 

• Leverage cutting-edge AI pair-programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products.
• Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Kubernetes/EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, MKS, Redis, OpenSearch, Docker, Terraform on AWS)
• Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of microservices
• Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.
• Evaluate and scale existing systems to meet specialized requirements and support Okta’s future business needs. 
• Lead design and code reviews to ensure systems are scalable, redundant, and multi-tenant.  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

What you’ll bring 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of extensive programming experience in modern programming languages like Go, Java, or C++ especially in backend services. Go is preferred. 
• Proven track record of architecting, deploying, and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructure with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and AWS container environments.
• Solid technical grasp of architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
• A good understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
• Experience with fundamental Cloud building blocks like IaC, Observability, Secrets Management, CI / CD pipelines, secure coding practices, and compliance. 
• Deep understanding of REST APIs and proven experience building and integrating them.
•  Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker
•  Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
•  Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles
•  Familiarity with Agile software development process

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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