Full Stack Software Engineer, Backend; PAM Team

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. 

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

In this role you will:

• 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

You might be a good fit if you:

• Are an experienced software engineer with a background in Golang
• Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
• Have the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
• Have experience working with cloud services like Caching, Queues, NoSQL Databases etc. 
• Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
• Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design.
• Enjoy deep-diving into production metrics, familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, DataDog etc.
• Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.

Required education and experience:

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