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.

The Engineering Services Team

Okta’s Engineering Services team is looking for a Principal Engineer to help us scale and increase velocity. You will be driving and perfecting our vision of Continuous Delivery, increasing the velocity and productivity of Engineering. You will work with a wide range of stakeholders and partners, including Engineers, Architects, Operations, Program Management, Quality, and Business Technology. We have a great team driving innovative projects- join us and bring your ideas!’

 

What you’ll be doing 

• Drive the long-term architecture of our CI/CD platform and developer tools; be the thought Leader in optimizing for developer productivity.
• Design CI and automation components for the scale of Okta with over 20 million tests run a day at peak.
• Set direction and influence the development of tools that support the end to end lifecycle of code management
• Act as an innovator by advising, recommending and managing the introduction of new technology and practices
• Consults with other architects across the R&D and Infrastructure Engineering teams to ensure our solution is addressing top concerns of engineers
• Build high quality tools and automation for internal use to support continuous integration, continuous delivery, and developer productivity.
• Design software or customize software for engineering use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency.
• Provide technical input by implementing Proof of Concept, influence the choice of the right technology, contribute to existing frameworks, and reviewing design and code.
• Roll out deliverables to internal customers in phases, monitor adoption, collect feedback, and fine-tune the project to respond to internal customers’ needs.
• Support pre-prod infrastructure in the cloud--monitoring, backup and restore, SLA, cost control, deployment.

 

What you’ll bring to the role

• In-depth understanding of application development, micro services architecture and successful elements of a multi-service ecosystem
• In-depth knowledge of large scale and high transactional continuous integration systems aimed at performance, accuracy and stability.
• Expert at Git, maven, build automation tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Experience with public cloud(AWS), its services, and its supporting tools (cost control, reporting, environment management).
• Experience working with Gradle, Bazel, Artifactory, Docker Registry, npm registry.
• Experience developing and onboarding customers to use CI tooling developed in  house 
• Development of self-service tooling to make engineers/developers productive.

 

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

• B.S. in CS or equivalent
• Experience in developing/managing infrastructure as service is a plus.
• Experience in Kubernetes
• Managing GitHub source code or any large scale SCM for the company is a plus.

 

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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.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:$173,000—$259,000 CAD

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/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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