Software Engineer in Test

Get to know Okta

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.

Auth0 technology, is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for over 100 million daily logins worldwide. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. The Quality team within Auth0 is responsible for driving the culture of quality across the organization.

This isn't your typical QA or testing role, but rather a deep engineering role focused on performance. We're looking for a Software Engineer in Test, who is eager to drive non-functional testing, identify critical optimization areas, and conduct in-depth analysis to understand "what's broken and why." You'll be at the forefront of research and development, uncovering efficiencies at a platform level and collaborating with engineering teams across the organization to implement solutions.

About the Team:

• Our Performance & Resilience team operates on a hub-spoke model, with a core focus on automation.
• We build tools, processes, and automation frameworks that empower our entire Engineering organization to enhance performance, resilience, and load testing optimization. 
• You'll be supporting specific teams with performance optimization and testing, ensuring our systems not only maintain their current high level of performance but continuously evolve and improve.

What We're Looking For:

• Programming Knowledge: Experience with a programming language like , TypeScript, JavaScript, or Golang is a plus. We're looking for someone with a tester's mindset who can understand code and collaborate effectively with our engineering teams to ensure high-quality software.

Experience with Databases: Have used databases such as MongoDb or SQL to store configuration or user data, understand tradeoffs between persistence and performance, and have used optimizations in these areas. Familiarity with indexes, query planners a plus. 

• Microservices & Kubernetes Exposure: High-level understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and microservices architecture.
• Public Cloud Experience: Familiarity with public cloud environments, AWS and Azure. 
• A "Developer" Mindset: You're passionate about digging into code, understanding system behavior, and proactively identifying areas for optimization.

Observability tooling experience: Experience using or implementing datadog, new relic, open tracing, open telemetry or similar request tracing tooling.   Load testing tool experience with: Jmeter, Apache Bench, Artillery, etc. Linux and Containers: You have leveraged linux and containers in production in the past. 

Why Join Us?

• High Scale, High Impact: Work on a global identity platform with millions of users, where your contributions will have a significant and immediate impact across our entire engineering organization.
• Solve Complex Problems: Tackle challenging performance and resilience issues in a distributed, high-throughput environment.
• Exceptional Growth Opportunities:
  • Access to conferences and ongoing learning.
  • Mentorship from senior team members.
  • Exposure to low-level problems, infrastructure knowledge, microservices, and Kubernetes scheduling optimization.

Opportunities to go deep into areas that genuinely interest you, continuously expanding your skillset.

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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: 

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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