Staff Software Engineer

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack - Backend) Staff Software Engineer The Product Auth0 is a developer-friendly identity platform designed by developers, for developers, simplifying authentication and authorization for more than 100 million daily logins worldwide. Within this global platform, our team drives two of Auth0’s most critical, high-impact surfaces: The Manage Dashboard: The definitive front door for developers and enterprise administrators worldwide. It is the control center where our customers configure critical identity policies, manage complex organizations, and monitor active threat intelligence. The Auth0 Marketplace: Our rapidly expanding extensibility ecosystem. The Marketplace allows customers to seamlessly discover and install third-party integrations - such as security monitoring, consent management, and database connectors - to dynamically customize their identity pipeline. The Role As a Staff Engineer on this team, you will not just write code; you will own the technical strategy, architect highly resilient frameworks, design developer-friendly APIs, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers. Your architectural ownership will span the entire stack - from the React-based frontend down through our Node.js/Go services, robust operational pipelines, and PostgreSQL databases. What You Will Do: Product Ownership: Lead the technical lifecycle of your team’s products, ensuring they are robust, secure, and performant from the frontend to the infrastructure layer. Full-Stack Execution: Bridge the gap between UI and Backend by designing clean APIs, efficient data flows, and scalable service architectures. Architecture & Design: Create and document technical designs for team initiatives, ensuring they account for scale, reliability, and regional constraints. Operational Health: Ensure your team’s services meet strict performance and security standards (SLAs/SLOs), including observability, rate-limiting, and SEO. Mentorship: Elevate the technical bar of your team through code reviews, design feedback, and hands-on guidance. Key Qualifications: Technical Execution (Full Stack): 8 to 12 years of hands-on experience in JavaScript/Node.js/Go and React/Next.js. Experience in designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure). Backend - Service Design: Strong proficiency in designing and building scalable services using Node.js (mandatory) or Go. Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes : Deep, hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and operating backend services on AWS, with strong proficiency in Kubernetes for container orchestration. Data, Caching & Pipelines: Strong experience with relational databases ( PostgreSQL ), distributed caching ( Redis ), and data/deployment pipelines . Performance & Scale: Experience using quantitative analysis (latency, traffic volume) to justify your design and technology choices. Strong production systems experience, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response. Frontend - Hands-on experience with modern React & MobX/Redux Build tools: Strong experience with frontend build tools, module bundlers, package managers Web Performance: Understanding of core web vitals, page speed and performance optimization. End-to-End Systems Knowledge: A clear understanding of how web traffic moves from the browser through CDNs, Load Balancers, and API Gateways to the backend. Delivery & Quality: Backend Excellence: Designing highly reliable backend architectures and implementing robust, automated delivery pipelines. Operational Mindset: Familiarity with the "Product-Ops" side of engineering - including security best practices , telemetry, alerting, and monitoring. Clear Communication: Ability to articulate technical trade-offs and visualize system flows for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Nice To Haves: Experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain. Knowledge of security engineering principles and application security best practices. #LI-Hybrid # P19001 The Okta Experience Supporting Your Well-Being Driving Social Impact Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. 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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