Principal Software Engineer

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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.

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Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. It integrates directly with an organization's existing services such as directories and identity systems, as well as many other applications.

With Okta Workflows, organizations can implement workflows quickly, easily, at a large scale, and low total cost. Hundreds of customers, including NTT, and MGM, trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

Position Description: We are looking for a Principal-level engineer who is passionate about building and evolving the developer productivity ecosystem used by the entire Workflows Engineering organization.

As a productivity engineer, you'll work with both our Engineering and Site Reliability teams, owning our developer CLI (Golang) and Kubernetes tooling, automated release processes, and CI/CD systems in CircleCI.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the SRE and Engineering teams to manage, extend, and enhance existing developer productivity and platform tooling for local and remote Kubernetes environments
• Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines in CircleCI
• Assist in weekly release orchestration
• Automate and improve processes via Golang tooling and Okta Workflows

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 10+ years of deep understanding of software engineering processes, agile framework, tools (e.g.: programming proficiency in a language, preferably Go or similar compiled language), methods, test development, algorithms, and data structures
• Passionate about learning new technical ecosystems
• Interested in working with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale, with familiarity of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Cloud Native Technologies(Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Docker)
• Experience with CI/CD Systems (such as CircleCI or Github Actions)
• Experience with development and deployment in a hosted cloud environment, preferably AWS

Education and Training: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

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

• Amazing Benefits
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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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