Senior Backend Software Engineer, Okta

Customer Identity

$136-228k

Salary benchmarked for candidates based in CA, CO, WA and NY, may vary in other locations. Offers equity (where applicable) and bonus

MongoDB
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Excel
Azure
Golang
Senior level
Remote in US
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

$136-228k

Salary benchmarked for candidates based in CA, CO, WA and NY, may vary in other locations. Offers equity (where applicable) and bonus

MongoDB
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Excel
Azure
Golang
Senior level
Remote in US

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

  • You have previous exposure to Node.js (JavaScript or Typescript)
  • You have experience creating and maintaining public APIs
  • You are passionate about working on systems that are highly reliable, maintainable, and scalable
  • You have experience and passion for sound engineering practices and testing
  • You excel when working autonomously and know when to seek help from your team members
  • You have experience with cloud environments (AWS and Azure preferred)
  • You consider security equally crucial as all other parts of development
  • You are interested in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • You have a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
  • You have practical experience developing and improving applications written in Node.js, Golang, or another concurrency-friendly language

Desirable

  • Experience working with a fully distributed, remote team
  • Existing knowledge of security engineering and application security
  • Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and application layers

What the job involves

  • IAM is the Engineering Domain that takes care of the core of the Customer Identity product: the authentication pipeline, the protocols, the sessions, anomaly detection and customer security detection and response mechanisms
  • The Protocols team is responsible for managing, maintaining, and expanding all authentication interfaces and we’re looking to grow the team to deliver on some high impact features in the near future
  • This team is responsible for some of the most significant expansions in our authentication offerings ever
  • You’ll use NodeJS (Javascript/Typescript), MongoDB, and PostgreSQL in this role. Our services run on AWS and Azure

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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