Staff Software Engineer, Indexer

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Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 

Join our team We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Team

Auth0 provides robust access management solutions, such as Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) to power customer-facing applications and websites. FGA is a multi-Region software as a service (SaaS) offering for flexible, fine-grained authorization at any scale. It's based on relationship-based access control (ReBAC), which is an evolution of role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) authorization models.

What you'll be doing

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure authorization solutions

• Partner with product managers, UX designers, and fellow engineers to deliver high-quality software that meets customer requirements

• Solve complex authorization challenges at scale and pave a new path forward in the identity space

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to coding best practices

• Diagnose and resolve issues in authorization systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and security

• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives, including refactoring code to meet new requirements and optimizing system performance

• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all developed features and systems

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement

• Participate in the team's on-call rotations to make sure we offer our customers the best availability for our services

What you'll bring to the role

• 8+ years of backend experience with a focus on data-intensive systems. You have a deep understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native platforms (AWS), and you know how to design for reliability and observability.

• Deep experience designing High Availability systems using patterns like Event Sourcing, Change Data Capture (CDC), or gRPC streaming. You understand how to handle leader election, backpressure, and consistency in distributed environments.

• You must be comfortable modeling complex relationships (DAGs, Trees) and optimizing traversal algorithms for low latency—moving beyond "using" a database to understanding how it works.

• Expertise in Go, specifically regarding concurrency primitives (channels, goroutines) and memory tuning (GC, profiling) for high-throughput workloads.

• You excel in an asynchronous, remote environment. You write clear documentation, communicate proactively and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following

• Experience building database internals (parsers, query optimizers, storage engines) or working with incremental compute frameworks.

• Familiarity with SQL engine internals, Abstract Syntax Trees (AST), or relational algebra.

• Experience with OpenFGA, Auth0, or similar Identity providers.

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: 

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $154,000—$230,000 CAD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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