Okta's Identity Threat Protection (ITP) team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and development of their core data ingestion and threat detection pipelines. The goal is to build a next-generation security system that leverages Okta AI to continuously evaluate threats and protect customers from attack and abuse by processing billions of events in real-time.
Requirements
- 8+ years of strong software development experience in an object-oriented language, with deep expertise in Java.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale stream processing systems using frameworks like Flink or Storm; Flink experience is highly desired.
- Proven experience with data ingestion at scale and building complex data pipelines.
- Strong experience with cloud-native architecture and rolling out microservices at enterprise scale.
- An excellent grasp of software engineering principles, scalability patterns, and security engineering.
- Experience working with a variety of data stores including RDBMS, NoSQL, and time-series databases.
- Experience working with Kafka streams at scal
Responsibilities
- Own the architectural design, development, and delivery of our cloud-native, real-time stream processing platform, with a focus on Apache Flink.
- Engineer data pipelines for large-scale data ingestion and feature engineering to power our machine learning models and complex rule-based systems.
- Develop across the entire Okta stack, from core Java services to our microservice architecture
- Lead the evaluation and implementation of new data technologies to solve complex security and ML challenges.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers on distributed systems best practices and stream processing design patterns.
- Evaluate and optimize for trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, and cost to ensure our platform operates effectively at scale.
- Participate in on-call rotations to expeditiously unblock customers and make them successful
Other
- 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.
- Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
