Staff Software Engineer, Data Migration

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. 

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box – we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0 technology, is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for over 100 million daily logins worldwide.

Within CIC, the Data Migrations team specializes in building robust, data-driven services that seamlessly move customers across environments in real-time. We’re looking for a skilled Staff Software Engineer passionate about distributed systems, platform engineering, and building scalable services. You’ll collaborate closely with architects and stakeholders to develop and maintain crucial infrastructure for CIC’s ecosystem. This is a high-visibility role with an exciting opportunity to drive innovation in a greenfield space and make a significant impact.

What you’ll be doing

• Writing maintainable, efficient code using proven patterns to solve complex problems
• Design, develop, and operate highly scalable services for data-intensive use cases
• Utilize streaming technologies and implement change data capture (CDC) strategies to ensure reliable, secure, and efficient data transfer
• Optimize performance and reliability of migration processes through continuous monitoring and tuning
• Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc
• Participate in team’s on-call rotation to build operational excellence on services we support

What you’ll bring to our teams

• 5+ years of software development experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Strong understanding of database fundamentals and experience with datastores such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, and Postgres
• Strong proficiency in Golang; experience with other programming languages is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Experience with reliability engineering on areas such as observability and incident management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers

Extra points

• Familiarity with protocols like SCIM and other concepts in the IAM (Identity and Access Management) domain
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta 

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

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