Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering Services

We are looking for a Staff Software engineer who is passionate about writing the tools to integrate and support to build large-scale, high-demand software in a fast-paced agile environment. You will share our passion for test-driven development, continuous integration and automation to produce frequent high-quality releases.

 

The Opportunity

Our engineering team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to be part of a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever. 

You will get an opportunity to work in scaling our infrastructure to the next generation. Our scale is already huge in running tens of thousands of tests for every commit automatically. This comes with challenges in speed by reducing compute time from days to a few minutes.

 

What you’ll be doing 

• You will be part of the team that builds, maintains, and improves our highly-automated build, release and testing infrastructure. 
• Scripting, tools-building, and automation are paramount to Okta Engineering; everybody automates. You will be creating and coding tools for internal use to support continuous delivery. - Team up with Development, QA and OPS to continuously innovate and enhance our build and automation infrastructure 
• Collaborate with peers and stake-holders to create new tools/process/technology. We use the latest technology from AWS and you can experiment, recommend, and implement new technologies in our build and CI system. 
• Work with internal customers to roll-out projects and process, monitor adoption, collect feedback, and fine-tune the project to respond to internal customers’ needs

 

What you’ll bring to the role

• Experience in developing Continuous Delivery pipelines for a diverse set of projects using Java, Jenkins, AWS, Docker, Python, Ruby, Bash, and more 
• Solid understanding of CI/CD release pipelines.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructures, such as AWS, GCP or Azure 
• Experience working with Gradle, Bazel, Artifactory, Docker registry, npm registry - Experience with AWS, its services, and its supporting tools (cost control, reporting, environment management). 
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional work toward task completion. 
• B.S. in CS or equivalent

 

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! 

• Experience in Kubernetes is a plus

 

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Last updated on Oct 19, 2023