Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.

Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.

The Product Okta's Auth0 is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers.

The Team The Enterprise Management team provides enterprise-ready, centralized governance of the Auth0 resources our customers build on tenants, teams, and dashboard users under a single pane of glass.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build high-performance, customer-facing features end-to-end using React and Node.js/TypeScript, delivering from concept through production deployment.
• Architect and optimize backend APIs both public and internal for throughput, latency, and reliability at enterprise scale.
• Implement and manage caching strategies to minimize response times and reduce database pressure across our dashboards and API surfaces.
• Profile, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks across the full stack from React rendering and state management to database query optimization and network I/O.
• Model and optimize data access patterns across PostgreSQL and MongoDB, choosing the right datastore and indexing strategy for each workload.
• Drive technical improvements to our codebase and architecture, ensuring our systems are highly reliable, maintainable, and scalable.
• Collaborate with engineers inside and outside the team to design and deliver powerful new APIs and features for our enterprise customers.
• Mentor and coach other engineers on sound engineering practices, performance discipline, and testing.
• Work closely with your team, the Product Manager, and the Product Designer to define the look, feel, and functionality of new features and review customer feedback.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation to ensure we offer our customers the best availability for our services.

Key Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working on large-scale systems or services.
• Strong expertise using Node.js (TypeScript) to build backend services and create and maintain public or internal APIs.
• Production experience building fullstack applications with React component architecture, state management, rendering performance, and modern tooling.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and migrations.
• Production experience with MongoDB document modeling, aggregation pipelines, and scaling patterns.
• Hands-on experience designing and tuning caching layers (Redis) cache invalidation strategies, write-through/write-behind patterns, and TTL management.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve performance problems using profiling tools, APM instrumentation, load testing, and capacity planning.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and cloud environments; AWS and/or Azure experience is preferred.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a demonstrated interest in mentoring and helping teammates grow.