Staff Software Engineer (Backend Agents/Clients)

The Privileged Access Management Team (PAM)

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. 

The Staff Software Engineer 

We are looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the building blocks of the product.

What you’ll be doing 

• Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
• Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
• Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
• Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
• Work on backend systems written in Go
• Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.

What you’ll bring to the role

• are an experienced backend software engineer with a background in Golang or programming languages with memory pointers 
• comfortable with giving and processing constructive feedback while also working independently
• comfortable with doing analysis and refactoring prior to implementation
• comfortable spotting and working to resolve ambiguity in requirements
• familiar with networking (IP addressing, routing, firewalls)
• familiar with Kubernetes, HashiCorp Terraform
• familiar with things like: GitHub, Make, Git, OpenAPI, Docker, IntelliJ/Goland
• familiarity on working with products for different operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• experience with HashiCorp Vault
• experience working in a team doing Agile
• experience providing and receiving code reviews
• comfortable with non HTTP-based protocols (SSH, RDP, TLS, LDAP, etc)
• comfortable with Linux shell scripting
• comfortable with PKI related concepts and protocols (asymmetric keys, trust stores, JWTs, TLS, etc)
• Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
• Have the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
• Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.

Required education and experience:

• 6+ years working as a software engineer.
• Experience working with production systems.
• Bachelors in CS, or equivalent

This role may not be for you if:

• you prefer frontend UI work with JavaScript/TypeScript
• have no experience outside of a standard three-tier monolith (frontend talks to backend talks to database)
• you have only worked on greenfield projects
• have no Linux experience

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