Staff Software Engineer (Data Platform, FedRamp)

Join Okta, a leading identity and access management company, as a Staff Software Engineer in the Data Platform team. In this role, you will design, build, and deploy systems that power data analytics and machine learning. You will work with modern technologies such as Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the direction, design, and implementation of solutions that improve end-user security and expand core competencies across the engineering organization.

• Design, build, and deploy systems that power data analytics and machine learning.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and cross-functional partners on project development.
• Mentor and coach engineers to help scale up the engineering organization.
• Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop
• 8+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java
• Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management
• Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
• Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos
• Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka
• Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems
• Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including
• Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam
• Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management
• Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure
• Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services
• Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems
• Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop
• Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack
• 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