The API Foundations Team
The API Foundations team was established to streamline and bring consistency to how we build customer facing APIs for Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC). The team aims to standardize our architecture and provide a robust set of building blocks to help enhance the internal and external developer experience when consuming, building and contributing to our APIs.
In addition to providing guidance and building blocks, the team is responsible for development and stewardship of our customer facing Management API.
This team’s work contributes to the Developer journey within Auth0 by Okta, specially on the onboarding and management phases, facilitating the discovery and usage of our APIs for managing their Auth0 resources.
What you’ll be doing
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Be a part of a collaborative and agile team, interfacing with the product managers and other teams to support shared services
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Provide technical direction to the team, detecting technical improvement opportunities and taking action to design and implement them
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Mentor and coach other engineers to support their growth and bring them along
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Design and develop features, APIs, and fixes to handle our current and future scale with a strong bias towards security
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Support existing services by ensuring that security issues and dependency updates are addressed in a timely manner
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Support other teams by reviewing changes to shared services and addressing bugs
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Work using NodeJS (Javascript/Typescript), MongoDB, and PostgreSQL on AWS and Azure.
What you’ll bring to the role
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8+ years of experience in a software engineering role
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Excellent communication skills
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A passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, scalable, and secure.
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Interested in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
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Deep understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript and building performant and secure RESTFul APIs using NodeJS
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Hands on experience in designing, maintaining, modernizing and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and driving the technical vision for them.
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Thrive in a highly collaborative, fully remote, and distributed culture
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Demonstrate ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and a customer-focused attitude
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Strong experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing and designing testing strategies.
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
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Experience creating and maintaining public APIs
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Experience working with a fully distributed, remote team
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Existing knowledge of security engineering and application security
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Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and application layers
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Experience solving problems at scale
