Get to know OktaOkta 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.

The FGA Team

The Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) provides robust access management solutions, such as Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) to power customer-facing applications and websites. FGA is a multi-Region software as a service (SaaS) offering for flexible, fine-grained authorization at any scale. It’s based on relationship-based access control (ReBAC), which is an evolution of role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) authorization models.

The Software Engineer Opportunity

Reporting to the engineering manager, you will be directly contributing to our goal of integrating our Fine Grained Authorization product into the Okta CIC platform.

What you’ll be doing

• Delivering scalable and resilient features that integrate FGA into our Customer Identity Cloud platform

• Work with senior engineers to develop features that integrate FGA into the Okta CIC platform

• Collaborating with engineering, product, and security within the team to deliver against our product goals

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, continuous improvement, and collaboration

• Participate in our on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues

What you’ll bring to the role

• 2+ years of software development experience

• Experience in software development, building features and maintaining code using the Go programming language

• A continuous improvement and collaborative mindset

• A bias for action and appetite for learning

• Experience building developer-friendly, API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC

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

• Hands on Observability experience

• Hands on experience with OpenFGA

• Hands on experience with Auth0 or knowledge of identity topics

• Experience with stream processing tools such as Kafka, or CDC tools such as Debezium

• Experience with tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform

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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