Staff Software Engineer (DevOps)

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.

We are looking for a Staff Software engineer who is passionate about writing the tools to integrate and support to build large-scale, high-demand software in a fast-paced agile environment with a devops mindset . You will share our passion for test-driven development, continuous integration and automation to produce frequent high-quality releases.

Our engineering team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to be part of a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.

You will get an opportunity to work in scaling our infrastructure to the next generation. Our scale is already huge in running tens of thousands of tests for every commit automatically managing hundreds and thousands of compute nodes across AWS and GCP environments . This comes with challenges in speed by reducing compute time from days to a few minutes.

What you’ll be doing

Major areas of responsibility include:

• You will be part of the team that manages the large scale distributed infrastructure which spans across multiple tools and technologies and serves the needs of all the organizations.
• You will be part of the team that builds, maintains, and improves our highly-automated build, release and testing infrastructure.
• Scripting, tools-building, and automation are paramount to Okta Engineering; everybody automates. You will be creating and coding tools for internal use to support continuous delivery.
• Team up with Development, QA and OPS to continuously innovate and enhance our build and automation infrastructure
• Collaborate with peers and stake-holders to create new tools/process/technology. We use the latest technology from AWS and you can experiment, recommend, and implement new technologies in our build and CI system.
• Work with internal customers to roll-out projects and process, monitor adoption, collect feedback, and fine-tune the project to respond to internal customers’ needs

What we are looking for

• 8+ years of total experience in Software Engineering and Operations.
• You approach problem from DevOps mindset
• You have hands-on experience managing distributed infrastructure in AWS/GCP.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD release pipelines.
• Experience in Kubernetes
• Experience working with Gradle, Bazel, Artifactory, Docker registry.
• Experience with AWS, its services, and its supporting tools (cost control, reporting, environment management).
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional work toward task completion.

Education and Training:

• B.S. in CS or equivalent

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What you can look forward to as an Full-Time 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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