Senior Software Engineer, Datastores (Auth0)
Okta is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Datastores (Auth0) in Toronto, Canada. It pays CAD 136k-CAD 187k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Okta.
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- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting allows some remote work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Golang, Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 387 other open roles at Okta.
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Develop and scale large distributed platform infrastructure and datastores for the Auth0 authentication platform.
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Datastores Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
The Auth0 platform secures more than 100 million logins each day for customers all around the world - and we're growing fast! The Platform Infrastructure team enables Auth0 engineers to move faster by giving them tools to easily deploy and manage their services on AWS and Azure. This is a role with a huge impact. You will get to work with engineers throughout the organization and what you build will be a foundational piece of the infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come.
We are looking for Engineer who are passionate about distributed systems, availability, and delivering customer value to join our Platform Infrastructure Datastores team. Because we build and support the overall Auth0 platform, the ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about infrastructure, operations, databases and not intimidated by cross-organization coordination and collaboration.
You will:
- Develop our large, distributed and highly-available infrastructure.
- Implement platform tools that allow feature teams to deploy and manage the datastores for their services.
- Research new technologies to accelerate new environment creation.
- Carry cross team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation.
You might be a good fit if you:
- Have 5-8 years of software development experience.
- Are proficient in or have a desire to learn Golang
- Have experience managing infrastructure with Terraform.
- Have experience working with k8s, CICD
- Comfortable working with data storage systems, at scale and in a team environment using technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Dynamodb
- Comfortable working on datastore reliability - standard configurations for data stores, latency, throughput, availability, utilization indicators, performance analysis
- Have experience working with Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services.
- Tend to deliver work incrementally to get feedback and iterate over solutions.
- Have a passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
- Bring the right attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
- Are comfortable working on a fully-distributed team.
Extra Points:
- Have experience working with databases
- Have DevOps experience using cloud-agnostic, cloud-native technologies.
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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
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- Walk me through how you've used Golang in your day-to-day work.
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