Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
- Compensation
- CA$136K–CA$187K / yr
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies such as
- 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
Full description
**Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
**Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
About the Team
The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform team solves challenges and enables:
- Streaming analytics
- Interactive end-user reporting
- Data and ML platform for Okta to scale
- Telemetry of our products and data
Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.
About the Position
This is an opportunity for experienced Software Engineers to join our fast growing Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake.
We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who can help design and own the building, deploying and optimizing the streaming infrastructure. This project has a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have a sizable impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components
- Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation
- Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning