Staff Engineer - Golang & Mongodb

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · SW Eng - Infrastructure-672

Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build and own critical infrastructure for their Auth0 ecosystem, focusing on secure identity solutions for AI. The role involves architecting and developing highly scalable, data-intensive services, leveraging streaming technologies and CDC for data migration, and driving operational excellence. The engineer will lead cross-team initiatives and mentor other engineers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect and build for scale. You will design, develop, and operate highly scalable, data-intensive services, moving beyond just writing code to architecting solutions for the future.
  2. Master the data stream. You'll leverage streaming technologies and implement advanced change data capture (CDC) strategies to ensure the secure, reliable, and efficient transfer of data.
  3. Drive operational excellence. Through continuous monitoring and performance tuning, you will enhance the reliability of our migration processes and participate in our team's on-call rotation to ensure our services are always on.
  4. Lead and influence. You will guide cross-team initiatives from concept to completion, leading design and code reviews, and championing security and operational robustness.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in fast-paced, agile environments
  • shipping high-quality software
  • strong understanding of database fundamentals
  • hands-on experience with datastores like MongoDB and Postgres
  • strong proficiency in Golang
  • mentoring others
  • reliability engineering
  • observability
  • incident management
  • excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

Nice to have

  • Experience with distributed streaming platforms like Kafka
  • Familiarity with concepts in the IAM (Identity and Access Management) domain
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure)
  • container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker