Staff Software Engineer, API Foundations (Auth0)

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.

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The API Foundations Team

Have you ever wondered why some APIs are a joy to work with while others make you want to pull your hair out? The API Foundations team is applying API First principles because we believe that APIs are the most important consideration when starting to build new features. APIs are the interface to our customers, and they establish the patterns and rules for how developers should interact with Auth0.

The API Foundations team was established to streamline and bring consistency to how we build customer facing APIs for Auth0. 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.

The Opportunity

As a member of the API Foundations team, you will help Auth0 build a reference API experience. This team contributes to the developer journey within Auth0, especially on the onboarding and management phases, facilitating the discovery and usage of our APIs for managing their Auth0 resources.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Be a part of a collaborative and agile team, interfacing with the product managers and other teams to support shared services
• Provide technical direction to the team, detecting technical improvement opportunities and taking action to design and implement them
• Mentor and coach other engineers to support their growth and bring them along
• Design and develop features, APIs, and fixes to handle our current and future scale with a strong bias towards security
• Support existing services by ensuring that security issues and dependency updates are addressed in a timely manner
• Support other teams by reviewing changes to shared services and addressing bugs
• Work using NodeJS (JavaScript/TypeScript), MongoDB, and PostgreSQL on AWS and Azure
• Participate in our on-call rotations for troubleshooting production issues
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• 8+ years of experience in a software engineering role
• Excellent communication skills
• A passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, scalable, and secure.
• Interested in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Deep understanding of JavaScript / TypeScript and building performant and secure RESTFul APIs using NodeJS
• Hands-on experience in designing, maintaining, modernizing and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and driving the technical vision for them.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative, fully remote, and distributed culture
• Demonstrate ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and a customer-focused attitude
• 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!

• Experience creating and maintaining public APIs
• Experience working with a fully distributed, remote team
• Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and application layers
  
  

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:

$135,000—$203,000 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.

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