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Senior Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform

Join Okta as a Staff Software Reliability Engineer to design and build scalable data platform services in a hybrid work environment.

Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Compensation
CA$160k–CA$220k/yr
Level
staff
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 3 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 3 months ago

Last verified on the company career page 3 hours ago

Role intensity

60% hands-on coding

AI in the day-to-day

Okta secures AI by building trusted infrastructure for organizations to embrace AI safely.

Requirements

Experience
5+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Equity/Stock Options Remote Work Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In the role of Staff Software Reliability Engineer for the Data Platform at Okta, the engineer will focus on designing, building, and deploying scalable data services and systems that enhance analytics and machine learning capabilities. Proficiency in modern technologies such as Kinesis, Flink, and Snowflake is essential, along with a strong background in distributed systems and reliability engineering. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with over five years of experience who thrive in fast-paced environments and are eager to take ownership of impactful projects. The Data Platform team is known for its creativity and flexibility, making it a dynamic place for innovation.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about 3 months ago — first seen on Joblaze July 29, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page October 27, 2026.
  • Starts above 2% of 47 comparable staff data engineering roles we track (median $208,592 across 26 companies).

Quick facts

Is the Senior Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform role remote?
It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
What's the salary range?
Okta lists CAD 160,000–CAD 220,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform role.
Where is the role based?
Okta is hiring for this position in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Beam, Elasticsearch, Flink, Hadoop, Java, Kafka.
What seniority level is this role?
Okta targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Senior Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform role at Okta.

From the original posting

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Senior Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform

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. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

About the Position

This is an opportunity for experienced Software Reliability 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. This project has a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have a sizable impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems.

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
  • Participate in the on-call rotation, and incident management

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • 3+ years of industry experience
  • 2+ 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, Databricks, 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

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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:
$136,000—$187,000 CAD

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