Principal Software Engineer, Okta

Authorization, Customer Identity

CA$173-259k

+ Bonus

Go
REST API
Expert level
Remote in Canada
Okta

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

Job no longer available

Okta

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Job no longer available

CA$173-259k

+ Bonus

Go
REST API
Expert level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Company mission

To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.

Role

Who you are

  • A passion for authorization and the entire identity space
  • An attitude that builds up and creates multipliers across the team
  • Experience building application with amazing scale and resiliency
  • Experience in software development building distributed systems in Go
  • Experience building developer-friendly, API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC
  • Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for complex technical initiatives
  • 10+ years of software development experience
  • 5+ years of experience working on cloud applications

Desirable

  • Hands on experience with OpenFGA
  • Hands on experience with Auth0

What the job involves

  • Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this role will be influential as the product grows to a strong, mature authorization service that exceeds our customer’s needs
  • Contribute to improving FGAs's product architecture patterns, security controls, and best practices
  • Drive the FGA product forward through strategy, design, requirements, and code
  • Drive technical decision making while striving to hit the right balance between factors such as simplicity, extensibility, reliability, and performance
  • Maintain a value driven perspective on delivery that includes analysis of COGS
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and security to ensure clarity on requirements and successful delivery of features
  • Embed closely with the FGA teams to deliver against our goals
  • Create an innovation pipeline and serve as a role model for others
  • Partner with other Okta engineering teams to drive adoption of FGA across the other products
  • Participate in the team's on-call rotations to make sure we offer our customers the best availability for our services

Our take

Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.

The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. They aim to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.

Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.

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Freddie

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

19% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Sep 2015

$75m

SERIES F

Jun 2014

$75m

SERIES E

Total funding: $229.3m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health + Wellness
  • Financial Benefits
  • Pay + Incentives
  • Time Off
  • Everyday Living
  • Resources

Company values

  • Love our customers
  • Never stop innovating
  • Act with integrity
  • Be transparent
  • Empower our people

Company HQ

The East Cut, San Francisco, CA

Founders

VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.

Frederic Kerrest

(Vice Chairman)

Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.


People progressing

Joined as Senior Manager, Recruiting EMEA and promoted to Director, Recruiting EMEA after 3 years. Promoted again to Senior Director, Recruiting EMEA after another 3 years.

Diversity & Inclusion at Okta

  • Workforce: We believe in recruiting diverse talent to create balanced teams
  • Workplace: We support and empower employees to be authentic and grow through open conversations and education
  • Marketplace: We go to market and sell to diverse audiences

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