Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Backend Software Engineer focuses on enhancing the core architecture of Okta's Privileged Access Management system, ensuring secure access to critical infrastructure. The position requires expertise in Golang, relational databases like PostgreSQL, and cloud services, emphasizing the design of scalable APIs and backend systems. Ideal candidates have over eight years of experience in software engineering and a strong understanding of distributed systems. Okta's collaborative environment fosters ownership and innovation, making it suitable for seasoned engineers looking to tackle complex security challenges.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Okta's career page.
- Okta has 397 other open roles including Finance Manager, Products & Technology, Customer Success Executive, Revenue Operations Manager, EMEA.
- 1265 active AWS roles on Joblaze right now.
- 782 active GCP roles on Joblaze right now.
- 750 active Azure roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$166,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Backend Software Engineer — Privileged Access Management (PAM) role remote?
- Yes — Okta lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Okta lists CAD 160,000–CAD 200,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Backend Software Engineer — Privileged Access Management (PAM) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Go, caching, Queues, NoSQL, GCP.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Backend Software Engineer — Privileged Access Management (PAM) role at Okta.
From the original posting
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Backend Software Engineer — Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Ever wonder how large organizations make sure the right people can access their most critical systems? That's the problem we solve.
Our team builds the infrastructure that controls who can reach sensitive servers, databases, and cloud resources, grants access only when it's needed. It is the security layer between people (and non-human-interfaces) and the systems they need to do their jobs.
We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer who wants to work on hard problems: distributed systems and building software where getting it right really matters. You'll ship code that protects real infrastructure for real organizations. You’ll build foundations that multiple feature teams depend on. When you make something faster, more reliable, or easier to use, it multiplies across the entire product.
This is a role for someone who likes thinking about how systems fit together. You'll need strong opinions about what makes a good abstraction, and the flexibility to evolve those abstractions as the product grows.
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.
In this role you will:
- 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 written in Go
- Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.
You might be a good fit if you:
- Are an experienced software engineer with a background in Golang (other languages are also acceptable)
- Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
- Have the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
- Have experience working with cloud services like Caching, Queues, NoSQL Databases etc.
- Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
- Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design.
- Enjoy deep-diving into production metrics, and familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, DataDog etc.
- Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.
Required education and experience:
- 8+ years working as a software engineer.
- Experience working with production systems.
- Bachelors in CS, or equivalent
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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.
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