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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.

The Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) is a product unit of Okta focussed on the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) space. We are looking for exceptional new team members to join our team and help drive our next level of success. One team, one score!

Our vision is to free everyone to safely use any technology. We provide secure access for everyone, but not just anyone. We process billions of logins per month (and growing!). So, if you’re a big thinker who is nimble and adaptable, Okta CIC may be an ideal place for you to shine.

The Team & Role:

Okta is looking for an Architect to work in our Engineering Architecture team, reporting directly to our Vice President of Architecture & Chief Architect. The Architecture team is a small group of very senior engineers who work broadly across the organization with Engineering, Product, and Security. We embed closely with other Engineering teams for large projects, and provide direction and architectural guidance for smaller initiatives. We have a dual-pronged charter to “level up the tech stack and level up the people stack” via both technical contributions and partnerships/mentoring. Successful candidates will have a passion for building reliable and scalable distributed systems, a technical background, hands-on experience in developing cloud systems at scale, a solid understanding of architecture-based security issues, experience application and platform architecture, and the ability to collaborate with others to drive initiatives forward.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to significantly contribute to Okta’s future technology direction. Through your experience, knowledge of industry trends, technical abilities, and knowledge you will produce guidance, proof of concepts, and production implementations that help CIC Engineering teams move faster by using and developing standard patterns and technologies. You will also help advance the engineering culture and help uplevel other engineers.

What you will do:

• As part of a team of seasoned Architects, you will collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve CIC’s technology stack and architecture.
• Develop and drive the implementation of a platform architecture that supports Engineering’s goals and deliverables, through strategy, design, requirements, and code.
• Investigate, understand, and resolve bottlenecks in our ability to scale, use resources efficiently, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA.
• Embed closely with Engineering teams across the organization for large projects while providing guidance and lighter touch engagements for smaller initiatives.
• Design, architect, and document large scale distributed systems.
• Implement features across different teams using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
• Drive technical decision making while striving to hit the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance.
• Contribute to improving Okta’s product architecture patterns, security controls and best practices.
• Participate in “round table” discussions and mentor team members and engineers throughout the organization to level up our people.
• Participate in our Engineering Leadership Team with other architects, directors, and executives.
• Undergo training as an Incident Commander and join on-call rotation for major incidents.

What you bring:

• Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable systems at scale.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to adjust your communication style to the intended audience, whether communicating with senior executives, customers, engineers, or product managers.
• Strong analytical skills to investigate performance, find bottlenecks, and suggest tractable optimizations. Prior experience with application performance management, tracing, and performance testing tools are a plus.
• Previous experience in software development building distributed systems (Node.js and/or Go preferred but not required).
• Exposure to API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC.
• Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for technical initiatives.
• Ability to lead and resolve company-wide technical discussions.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments.
• Great ability to build trust through collaboration with multiple teams and get consensus on a vision.
• Knowledge of application security and cloud security best practices.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience working on cloud applications.

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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/.

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