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Original Job Post

Okta · 1 day ago

Principal Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$188K/yr - $282K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity.

Work with user experience designers and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies.

Develop secure and reusable components to enable other teams to easily implement UIs with rich and consistent look and feel.

Develop APIs and SDKs that developers love.

Have a high bar for security, test-driven development, design reviews and code reviews while harboring a sense of urgency.

Define long-term observability and reliability metrics for the systems/features that they own.

Qualification

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Software DevelopmentBackend LanguagesHTTP FundamentalsAPI DesignFront-End UIDatabase TechnologiesCloud-Native SystemsDistributed SystemsIterative DevelopmentProblem-SolvingHard WorkingCommunicationOwnershipAccountabilityAttention to DetailCustomer FocusAuthenticationAuthorizationSAMLSCIMOAuthOIDCIntegrationFault-tolerantScalable

Required

Have 10+ years of software development experience.

Proficient in at least one language while comfortable in more than one of the backend languages - Java, Typescript, Ruby, GoLang, C#, Python.

Demonstrable knowledge of HTTP fundamentals with strong API Design skills.

Comfortable in React or similar front-end UI stacks; if not comfortable yet, you are willing to learn.

Have experience working with at least one of the database technologies - MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL.

Experience working with at least one cloud-native system of scale (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Experience with distributed systems patterns including caching, asynchronous processing etc.

Track record of delivering work incrementally to get feedback and iterating over solutions.

Comfortable working on a fully-distributed, remote team. Bring the right attitude to the team: ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.

Excellent written communication skills, bringing structure to ambiguous concepts, and driving closure on them methodically using first principles.

Possess or have interest in developing a strong product sense.

Preferred

Expertise in standard authentication and authorization protocols such as SAML, SCIM, OAuth and OIDC.

Have built fault-tolerant & scalable integrations to third-party services.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Flexible spending account

Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

Company

Okta

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Okta is a management platform that secures critical resources from cloud to ground for workforce and customers.

Founded in 2009

San Francisco, California, USA

5,001-10,000 employees

http://www.okta.com

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