Okta
Senior Frontend/Fullstack Engineer (Security Platform)
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.
The Security Platform Team
Okta’s Security Platforms team builds platform services that keep our customers secure and protect them against attack and abuse. We are a team of Data Scientists, ML engineers, ML systems engineers and Java full stack developers that are reimagining what it means to authenticate to cloud resources.
The Senior Frontend Fullstack Opportunity
We are seeking a senior Front-End focused full stack software engineer to join our Security Platform Engineering group. This is an opportunity to build cutting-edge risk-based authentication and authorization policies and contribute to the evolution of the core system that allows Okta to enforce them throughout various layers of the Okta platform. This group manages a suite of product facing security tooling from Bot Detection to Breached Credential Protection. Your contributions will directly enable customers to understand the potential threats to their organizations and guide them towards protections that they can use in response. The ideal candidate has experience building large scale enterprise software, is passionate about visualizing security data, and has direct experience in authentication, identity, steam processing, feature engineering, or complex rule-based systems for authorization.
What you’ll be doing
- Be a part of a fast paced, agile team comprising engineers, a product manager, and designer.
- Delight our customers by providing world class UX using our React-based design system
- You will guide the technical direction and implementation of large-scale product features
- Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and customer impact to ensure we build the right solution
- Ship well-tested, secure, reliable, and maintainable code while keeping our customers best interests in mind
- Participate in rotations to expeditiously unblock customers and make them successful.
What you’ll bring to the role
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience working in front-end UI stacks(React.js Preferred)
- 5+ years of strong software development experience in an object oriented language building highly-reliable, mission-critical software (Java preferred)
- Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
- Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL databases, TSDB a plus
- Expertise in creating or extending rule systems
- Experience rolling out microservices at the enterprise scale.
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- Experience with decoupling a monolithic application into microservice architecture
- Experience with Backbone.js, CSS, HTML
- Experience with stream processing (Storm, Flink) and data ingestion at scale
- Experience with machine learning / Python
- Experience in cloud security, identity and/or authentication protocols highly desired
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, 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/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$118,000—$178,000 CAD
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community 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/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity 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.
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Okta Toronto, Ontario, CAN Office
401 Bay St., Toronto, ON, Canada, M5H 2Y4
