Job Description
Help drive architectural vision and strategy on the team to design and deliver powerful new enterprise functionality for our SaaS customers - both for the login flow itself and for Auth0βs direct and self-service management capabilities. Identify and implement strategic technical improvements to our codebase and architecture. Orchestrate and lead major technical projects, across teams as necessary. Mentor and coach less experienced engineers on sound engineering practices and technical leadership. Serve as a subject matter expert on all building scalable, reliable and maintainable distributed systems. Work with your team, the Product Manager and Product Designer to define the look, feel and functionality of new features and review customer feedback. You bring solid architectural and security knowledge, backed by experience in designing, implementing and evolving complex distributed systems. You have worked on projects that required close collaboration with external teams, and have experience making those a success. You are a good mentor and communicator, and bring the rest of your team along for the journey. You can explain complex concepts simply in person or in a document. You know that while an engineer can write code, teams collaborate to ship successful products. You have solid previous experience with Node.js (JavaScript or Typescript) to build scalable backend services and creating and maintaining public and internal APIs. You have built frontend and full-stack apps and know what approach to use when. You know how to build SPAs, have good understanding of React and know your way around CSS. You have a good understanding of SQL databases and know how to debug and optimise table and query structure for performance under load. You have experience with Docker and cloud environments (AWS and Azure preferred) - bonus points for experience with Kubernetes. You have proven experience operating services at scale with appropriate observability tools and mechanisms.
About Okta
Okta is The Worldβs Identity Company and the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise.