Senior Software Engineer, Platform Streaming (auth0)

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Toronto, ON · SW Eng - Infrastructure-672

Software Engineer role focused on building and operating data pipeline infrastructure for event streaming, messaging, and analytics use cases within Okta's Auth0 platform. The role emphasizes distributed systems, platform engineering, and solving data-intensive problems at scale, with a focus on foundational infrastructure to support future scaling.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the design and development of highly scalable services for data-intensive use cases
  2. Evaluate and advocate for modern technologies to accelerate value delivery and improve engineering efficiency
  3. Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc
  4. Participate in team’s on-call rotation to build operational excellence on services we support
  5. Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization

Skills

Required

  • Golang or Java
  • designing, developing and tuning highly-scalable, event-driven systems
  • database fundamentals
  • event streaming technologies such as Kafka
  • distributed systems
  • platform engineering
  • data-intensive problems at scale

Nice to have

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)

What the JD emphasized

  • highly scalable services
  • highly reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure