Okta is looking to solve the problem of providing secure access, authentication, and automation by placing identity at the core of business security and growth. The specific role aims to contribute to Okta's future technology direction by guiding, building proof of concepts, and delivering production software implementations to help Auth0 Engineering teams move faster.
Requirements
- Mastery and deep understanding of hands-on software development building distributed systems in Node.js (Javascript or Typescript).
- Experience with API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC.
- Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments, particularly Kubernetes in AWS/Azure.
- Strong analytical skills to investigate performance, find bottlenecks, and suggest tractable optimizations.
- Knowledge of application security and cloud security best practices.
- Knowledge of Identity Protocols such as OAuth, OIDC and SAML.
- Experience with security engineering and application security.
Responsibilities
- As part of a team of seasoned Architects, you will collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture.
- Develop Architect-level expertise in authentication and authorization, leading initiatives to enhance, scale, and evolve Auth0’s product offerings.
- Embed within Engineering teams across the organization for large projects, while providing guidance and lighter touch engagements for smaller initiatives.
- Design, architect, and document large scale distributed systems.
- Lead the development of complex, broadly-scoped functionality in a very large and deep set of services and components.
- Teach by doing: coding, optimizing, and troubleshooting Node.js and Go applications in collaboration with feature development teams.
- Implement features and create consistent foundations using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
Other
- Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to adjust your communication style to the intended audience, whether communicating with senior executives, customers, engineers, or product managers.
- Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for technical initiatives.
- Ability to lead and resolve company-wide technical discussions, balancing the desire to collect opinions with the need to drive to decisions.
- Great ability to build trust through collaboration with multiple teams and get consensus on a vision.
- 10+ years of software development experience.
