Join Okta as a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance automated build and testing infrastructure in a fast-paced environment.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 2 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Build and maintain automated build infrastructure
- Create tools for continuous delivery
- Collaborate with Development, QA and Ops
- Roll-out projects and processes
- Monitor adoption and collect feedback
Must have
- 3+ years of experience with programming languages
- Good understanding of application development
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional work
Nice to have
- Understanding of Agile methodologies
- Past experience working on AWS or K8S
- Experience in Kubernetes
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer at Okta focuses on developing and enhancing the automated build, release, and testing infrastructure to support large-scale software projects. Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Go, or Java, along with experience in AWS and containerization technologies, is essential for success. This position is ideal for engineers with a solid background in application development and a collaborative mindset, particularly those who thrive in agile environments. The team emphasizes innovation and individual ownership, offering opportunities to work with emerging technologies.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 29, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page September 30, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 3 other locations at Okta: Bengaluru, India, Bengaluru, India, Bengaluru, India.
- Starts above 6% of 36 comparable senior backend roles in Canada that list Python we track (median $107,860 across 12 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 53.5% of 71 comparable senior backend roles in Canada; Linux appears in 1.4% of 71 comparable senior backend roles in Canada.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Okta lists CAD 136,000–CAD 187,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Docker, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer role at Okta.
From the original posting
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We are looking for a Senior Software engineer who is passionate about writing the tools to integrate and support to build large-scale, high-demand software in a fast-paced agile environment. You will share our passion for test-driven development, continuous integration and automation to produce frequent high-quality releases.
Our engineering team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to be part of a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever.
You will get an opportunity to work in scaling our infrastructure to the next generation. Our scale is already huge in running tens of thousands of tests for every commit automatically. This comes with challenges in speed by reducing compute time from days to a few minutes.
Responsibilities:
- You will be part of the team that builds, maintains, and improves our highly-automated build, release and testing infrastructure.
- Scripting, tools-building, and automation are paramount to Okta Engineering; everybody automates. You will be creating and coding tools for internal use to support continuous delivery.
- Team up with Development, QA and Ops to continuously innovate and enhance our build and automation infrastructure
- Collaborate with peers and stake-holders to create new tools/process/technology. We use the latest technology from AWS and you can experiment, recommend, and implement new technologies in our build and CI system.
- Work with internal customers to roll-out projects and process, monitor adoption, collect feedback, and fine-tune the project to respond to internal customers’ needs.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience with one or more programming languages including Python, Go, Java, Javascript
- Good understanding of application development, micro services architecture and successful elements of a multi-service ecosystem
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional work towards task completion.
- Understanding of Agile methodologies is a plus.
- Past experience working on AWS or K8S
- Good understanding of virtualization, dynamic provisioning, Docker, AWS and Linux
- Experience in Kubernetes is a plus
- B.S. Computer Science 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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