Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Customer Identity Cloud, an Okta business unit, is an easy-to-implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform. If you are a problem solver wanting to improve the lives of our developers, look no further - the DX domain is where you want to be. Our domain’s mission is to provide a best-in-class developer experience for customers to enhance their end-users’ identity journey. We work with Node.js, React, Postgres/MongoDB databases and our services run on AWS and Azure. Our technology radar continues to try, adopt and re-visit various technologies and are proponents of using the right tools for the job.

As a principal engineer in the DX domain at Auth0 you will:

• Collaborate on and make proposals for engineering work across teams / domains, aiding engineers and product managers in making informed decisions in alignment with strategic goals.
• Provide thought leadership across the teams in the domain and drive initiatives to raise the bar
• Be a trusted advisor to the ELT (Engineering Leadership Team) surfacing opportunities and proactively identifying risks.
• Act as a point of escalation for teams facing complex technical challenges.
• Proactively identify opportunities to reuse or generalize existing services and product features to avoid duplication of effort and encourage collaboration.
• Commit to ensuring our customers have an exceptional experience with our products.
• Mentor and provide advice to individual contributors across teams and domains.
• Engage with support teams as the final level of escalation for tickets.
• Participate in our on-call rotation for troubleshooting production issues.

You are a good fit for this role if you:

• Possess exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
• Have 12+ years of software development experience.
• Hold a solid understanding of Node.js/JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Have strong experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.
• Demonstrate ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and a customer-focused attitude.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative, fully remote, and distributed culture.
• Are passionate about working on systems that are highly reliable, scalable, and secure.

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta

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! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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