Principal Software Engineer (Golang)

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Toronto, ON
In-Office
177K-265K Annually
Expert/Leader
Cloud
The Role
The Principal Software Engineer will enhance developer productivity tools, manage CI/CD processes in CircleCI, and automate processes using Golang and Okta Workflows, while collaborating with Engineering and Site Reliability teams.
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Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. It integrates directly with an organization’s existing services such as directories and identity systems, as well as many other applications.

With Okta Workflows, organizations can implement workflows quickly, easily, at a large scale, and low total cost. Hundreds of customers, including NTT, and MGM, trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

Position Description: We are looking for a Principal-level engineer who is passionate about building and evolving the developer productivity ecosystem used by the entire Workflows Engineering organization.

As a productivity engineer, you’ll work with both our Engineering and Site Reliability teams, owning our developer CLI (Golang) and Kubernetes tooling, automated release processes, and CI/CD systems in CircleCI.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with the SRE and Engineering teams to manage, extend, and enhance existing developer productivity and platform tooling for local and remote Kubernetes environments
  • Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines in CircleCI
  • Assist in weekly release orchestration
  • Automate and improve processes via Golang tooling and Okta Workflows

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • 10+ years of deep understanding of software engineering processes, agile framework, tools (e.g.: programming proficiency in a language, preferably Go or similar compiled language), methods, test development, algorithms, and data structures
  • Passionate about learning new technical ecosystems 
  • Interested in working with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale, with familiarity of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with Cloud Native Technologies(Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Docker)
  • Experience with CI/CD Systems (such as CircleCI or Github Actions)
  • Experience with development and deployment in a hosted cloud environment, preferably AWS

Education and Training: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$177,000$265,000 CAD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

  • Amazing Benefits
  • 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. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at https://www.okta.com/legal/personnel-policy/.

Top Skills

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CircleCI
Docker
Go
Kubernetes
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
6,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.

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