Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

Okta
Toronto, Canada
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level engineers who thrive in distributed teams and are focused on building scalable, secure infrastructure for identity management systems.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 3-5 years of fullstack experience and a background in Golang and React
    — “Have 3-5 years of software development experience with a background in Golang or similar programming languages.”
  • Individuals who have experience designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns
    — “Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.”
  • Candidates who are experienced with cloud platforms and relational databases
    — “Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.”
  • Engineers who enjoy working on distributed systems and prioritize reliability and performance
    — “Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design.”

Things to consider

  • The role may require in-person onboarding despite being a fully-distributed team
    — “Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience”
  • Candidates must be located in Canada for the specified salary range
    — “The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize experience with end-to-end feature development in fullstack environments
    — “have the ability to complete a feature end to end from designing database models to backend APIs and frontend UI components.”
  • Highlight your ability to design and implement APIs that are relied upon by customers
    — “Design and build APIs that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.”
  • Showcase your experience with Zero Trust architecture and identity-centric systems
    — “Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case.”
  • Demonstrate your comfort with working in a fully-distributed team setting
    — “Are comfortable working on a fully-distributed team.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • evolving core architecture
  • designing scalable components
Typical background
3-5 years of software development experience

Skills & requirements

Required

GoReactRelational Databases

Preferred

Cloud Provider ExperienceDistributed Systems

Stack & domain

GoReactPostgreSQL

About the role

Original posting from Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

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. 

We are looking for a software engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the core building blocks of the product.

In this role you will:

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.

Delight our customers by providing world class UX using our React-based design system

Design and build APIs that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.

Work on backend components written in Go and frontend components written in React.

You might be a good fit if you:

Have 3-5 years of software development experience with a background in Golang or similar programming languages.

Proficient in React or similar front-end UI stacks.

Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.

have the ability to complete a feature end to end from designing database models to backend APIs and frontend UI components.

Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure.

Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.

Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design.

Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.

Have a passion and interest to work on systems that are highly reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.

Bring an optimistic attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.

Are comfortable working on a fully-distributed team.

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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:$136,000—$187,000 CADThe Okta Experience

Supporting Your Well-Being 

Driving Social Impact 

Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

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 complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

Source: Okta careers

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