Description
Okta is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform Scalability team. The team is responsible for ensuring the speed, efficiency, and scale of Okta's core authentication and authorization service.
The ideal candidate will have experience designing and implementing backend frameworks that protect and optimize critical system resources. They will also have a strong understanding of Java, relational databases, and cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement backend frameworks that protect and optimize critical system resources
- Monitor production latency, throughput, and resource utilization across the database, application, cache, and edge layers
- Analyze latency and scalability bottlenecks end-to-end
- Perform capacity and cost-efficiency analysis
- Advise engineering teams on scalable, efficient feature design
- Actively explore and integrate modern AI-driven developer tooling
- Write high-quality unit and functional tests
- Participate in on-call rotations handling latency and scale-related customer escalations
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a software developer with strong knowledge of Java or a similar language
- Strong experience with relational databases - preferably MySQL and Hibernate
- Proven experience diagnosing and resolving latency, throughput, and scaling bottlenecks in high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS environments
- Hands-on experience with profiling and observability tools
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred, or GCP/Azure) and modern container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes)
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between $136,000-$187,000 CAD. Okta also offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave.