Senior Backend Engineer, PAM (Agents/Clients)

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. 

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 

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The PAM Team

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. 

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the building blocks of the product.

The Senior Backend Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software engineer that has a deep understanding of Golang development. In this role, you will be a vital part of our Okta Privileged Access Team.

You will share our passion and great pride in building elegant solutions and will join an engineering team that prioritizes scalability, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative approach to build high-quality, next-generation enterprise software. You will be part of an engineering team at Okta that provides opportunities to investigate new technologies and share knowledge, tools, code, and best practices. You will get an opportunity to solve hard problems while partnering with many cross functional teams.

Our team is fast, innovative, and flexible, with an agile release cycle and personal project ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

 

What you’ll be doing

• Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
• Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
• Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
• Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
• Work on backend systems and service daemons written in Go
• Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.
  

 

What you’ll bring to the role

• 4+ years working as a software engineer.
• Are an experienced backend software engineer with a background in Golang or programming languages with memory pointers
• Comfortable with giving and processing constructive feedback while also working independently
• Comfortable with doing analysis and refactoring prior to implementation
• Comfortable spotting and working to resolve ambiguity in requirements
• Familiar with networking (IP addressing, routing, firewalls)
• Familiar with Kubernetes, HashiCorp Terraform
• Familiar with things like: GitHub, Make, Git, OpenAPI, Docker, IntelliJ/Goland
• Familiarity on working with products for different operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience providing and receiving code reviews
• Comfortable with non HTTP-based protocols (SSH, RDP, TLS, LDAP, etc)
• Comfortable with PKI related concepts and protocols (asymmetric keys, trust stores, JWTs, TLS, etc)
• Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
• Have the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
• Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.
  
  

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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:$118,000—$178,000 CAD

What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
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