Staff Golang Engineer

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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.

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The Privileged Access Management Team (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.

The Staff Software Engineer

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

What you’ll be doing

• Work on Backend Systems written in GO, C, C++
• 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.
• Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.

What you’ll bring to the role

• are an experienced backend software engineer with a background in Golang/C/C++ or programming languages with memory pointers
• comfortable with giving and processing constructive feedback while also working independently
• comfortable with doing analysis and refactoring prior to implementation
• comfortable spotting and working to resolve ambiguity in requirements
• familiar with networking (IP addressing, routing, firewalls)
• familiar with Kubernetes, HashiCorp Terraform
• familiar with things like: GitHub, Make, Git, OpenAPI, Docker, IntelliJ/Golang
• familiarity on working with products for different operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• experience with HashiCorp Vault
• experience working in a team doing Agile
• experience providing and receiving code reviews
• comfortable with non HTTP-based protocols (SSH, RDP, TLS, LDAP, etc)
• comfortable with Linux shell scripting
• comfortable with PKI related concepts and protocols (asymmetric keys, trust stores, JWTs, TLS, etc)
• Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
• Have the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
• Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.

Required education and experience:

• 6+ years working as a software engineer.
• Experience working with production systems.
• Bachelors in CS, or equivalent

This role may not be for you if:

• you prefer frontend UI work with JavaScript/TypeScript
• have no experience outside of a standard three-tier monolith (frontend talks to backend talks to database)
• you have only worked on greenfield projects
• have no Linux experience

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community 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/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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