Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

As a member of the Developer Enablement team, you will be focused on solving challenging problems around development environment frameworks, scalability and stability so that all engineers at Okta are enabled to deliver products at high velocity and scale without compromising quality, and coding standards. The team is chartered to understand software development pain points, provide solutions for those, set guidelines for code organization and development, and ensure that development environments in general are kept performant and stable as we continue to add more features and functionalities to our product portfolio. In this team you will have the opportunity to define and mould the future of development infrastructure at Okta.

Job duties and responsibilities

• Design and develop innovative automated solutions that enable developers to stay productive as they continue to add product features and functionalities
• Understand, analyze usage of and drive improvements to the development environments
• Build tools that measure operational performance of local development environments
• Enable automation for quick and efficient configuration of development environments
• Help developers with any questions they may have regarding their development environments
• Provide guidelines to enable best practices for code organization and development
• Profile and tune performance of development environments, including making changes to the codebase itself
• Work with developers, architects and release engineering to keep the code and overall development process efficient
• Stay abreast of industry trends for developer efficiency and cross-pollinate those ideas and processes with Oktas development processes

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ year of industry experience of developing, debugging, profiling and performance tuning in Java, Spring and Tomcat
• Well versed with build tools like Maven (preferred), Gradle, Bazel etc. -- configuring, profiling, and fine tuning those for superior performance
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes/ECS
• Experience with large public cloud provider like AWS, GCP, or Azure a plus
• Familiar with GIT and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams, and get up to speed with new technologies