Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (FedRamp)

About the Team

The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform team solves challenges and enables:

• Streaming analytics
• Interactive end-user reporting
• Data and ML platform for Okta to scale
• Telemetry of our products and data

Our elite team is fast, creative, and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company.

About the Position

This is an opportunity for experienced Software Engineers to join our fast-growing Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake. We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who can help design and own the building, deploying, and optimizing the streaming infrastructure.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components
• Work with engineering teams, architects, and cross-functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation
• Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning
• Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 8+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java
• Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka, Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam, Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop, Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos
• Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems
• Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
• Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management
• Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability, and incident management

Nice to Have

• Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure
• Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services
• Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems
• Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop
• Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack

Additional Requirements

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g., a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee).

Pay and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $194,000 USD - $267,000 USD

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, 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/us.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $174,000 USD - $239,000 USD