Software Engineer II, Platform Infrastructure - Control

Okta is looking for a Software Engineer II, Platform Infrastructure - Control to join their team.

The Platform Infrastructure, Control Team enables Auth0 engineers to move faster by giving them tools to easily deploy and manage their services on AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities:

• Help build, maintain, and scale the Control Server, API, and CLI tools that manage the lifecycle of environments, from provisioning to decommissioning.
• Contribute to backend logic powering automated rollbacks, hotfixes, and release patching to keep deployments safe and predictable.
• Enhance automated provisioners that enable product teams to self-serve high-fidelity test environments without friction.
• Implement and maintain event publishing pipelines to broadcast environment state changes reliably across platform services.
• Improve the developer experience by contributing to well-documented, intuitive CLI and API interfaces with actionable error messaging.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Quality Engineering teams to execute complex lifecycle workflows while adhering to platform standards.
• Participate in the team’s goalie rotation to support build and production operations when issues arise.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of software development experience, with a focus on building APIs, CLI tools, or backend services.
• Solid understanding of backend and distributed systems fundamentals (e.g., RESTful APIs, state management, basic idempotency, and asynchronous workflows).
• Hands-on experience with Go (or Rust/C++/Java) and a pragmatic approach to using AI coding tools.
• Practical experience provisioning or managing cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure) programmatically or via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Foundational knowledge of identity and access concepts (e.g., IAM, OAuth2, OIDC).

Nice to have:

• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases for managing application state.
• Exposure to Kubernetes internals (custom controllers/operators) or Terraform provider development.
• Familiarity with gRPC or Protocol Buffers for inter-service communication.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $114,000-$157,300 CAD