# Staff Data Engineer - Federal (Auth0)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $174,000-$238,700 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### Staff Data Engineer Opportunity

The Auth0 Data Engineering Team builds solutions to support analytics needs for the whole organisation and is in charge of the Data Platform. The Staff Data Engineer will serve as the technical leader for strategic platform initiatives, beginning with a critical mission: making our data platform FEDRamp compliant.

#### Responsibilities

- Lead the architectural design and evolution of our data platform, defining the roadmap for its future state.

- Drive technical strategy for large-scale platform enhancements, balancing long-term goals with incremental delivery.

- Collaborate deeply with engineers and leaders from other data, platform, and security teams to create a unified and secure architecture.

- Produce architectural artifacts, including design documents, threat models, and technical specifications, to create clarity and alignment for complex initiatives.

- Act as a technical mentor and force-multiplier for the Data Engineering team, elevating the performance of the group through guidance, code reviews, and sharing best practices.

- Implement foundational components of new architecture, proving out designs with hands-on coding and providing a model for other engineers to follow.

#### Requirements

- A passion for building secure, reliable, and scalable data systems.

- 8+ years of software development experience, with at least 5+ years in a data engineering or data platform role.

- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, cross-functional technical projects.

- Extensive experience architecting and deploying data infrastructure in a cloud environment (AWS strongly preferred).

- Deep architectural knowledge of the modern data stack, including data warehouses (Snowflake), transformation tools (dbt), and orchestrators (Airflow).

- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with a high bar for code quality and system design.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to create clarity and drive decisions on complex technical topics.

- The ability to deal with ambiguity, define a path forward, and lead others to successful outcomes.

#### Nice to Have

- Direct experience with security compliance frameworks like FEDRamp, SOC2, or HIPAA.

- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

- Experience working in government cloud environments (e.g., AWS GovCloud).

- Familiarity with the Identity Access & Management (IAM) domain.

### Additional Information

- This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.

- As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status.

### Salary Range

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $174,000-$238,700 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- data engineering
- cloud environment
- data infrastructure
- data warehouses
- transformation tools
- orchestrators

### Nice to have
- FEDRamp
- SOC2
- HIPAA
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- AWS GovCloud
- IAM

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