Staff DevOps Engineer (FedRAMP)

Join Okta, a leading identity and access management company, as a Staff DevOps Engineer. In this role, you will work on cutting-edge technologies, contribute to Okta's FedRAMP initiative, and collaborate with various teams to design and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects. You will also provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers. This position offers work-from-home opportunities, health and wellness benefits, financial benefits, and more.

• Act as a core contributor to Okta’s FedRAMP initiative, working with engineering teams to design, develop, and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects.
• Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of microservices, operating, supporting, and upgrading shared services and frameworks.
• Lead design and code reviews to ensure systems are scalable, redundant, and multi-tenant, providing technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
• Experience with AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kinesis, Kafka, and Docker
• Strong commitment to, and experience with, software engineering best practices
• Solid technical grasp of architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging some of the largest cloud deployments in the enterprise world
• Experience with fundamental Cloud building blocks like IaC, Observability, Secrets Management, CI / CD pipelines, secure coding practices, and compliance
• 7+ years of extensive programming experience in modern programming languages like Go, Java, or C++ especially in backend services. Go is preferred
• 4+ years experience working with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database systems. Experience with designing and querying databases with optimization in mind is a plus
• Familiarity with Agile software development process
• Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
• Deep understanding of REST APIs and proven experience building and integrating them
• A good understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
• Immense passion for doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; master's preferred
• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire