# Senior Software Engineer, Observability (Auth0)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $136,000-$187,000 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Observability to join the Auth0 Platform Observability team at Okta. As a core technical leader, you will work cross-functionally to help integrate services with our instrumentation libraries, support product teams, and actively investigate incidents to identify our observability gaps.

The Auth0 Platform Observability team owns the observability tooling that monitors the Auth0 Platform. You will help ensure our Product and Platform Engineers can monitor and observe our platform while we continue to rapidly ship software our customers love.

Responsibilities:

- Champion observability best practices and educate other engineering teams on building robust, standardised instrumentation

- Run services in production environments and contribute to designing services for high growth and high availability

- Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services

- Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform

- Troubleshoot performance issues and operational issues

- Automate operational tasks and improve scripts

- Assist with and provide feedback for performance testing and automation

- Participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify critical gaps in our current telemetry tooling

- Act as a technical leader, driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards across the broader engineering organisation

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience

- Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure

- Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking)

- Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang

- Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

- A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks

- Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices

- Experience in coaching and mentoring more junior engineers

- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and collaborate seamlessly with multiple engineering teams

- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications

## Skills

### Required
- cloud infrastructure
- Datadog ecosystem
- Node.js
- Golang
- containerisation
- orchestration tools
- microservice architecture
- OpenTelemetry

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