Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Salary: CAD 160,000–220,000 annual base salary for candidates located in Canada

Company

Okta builds identity and security infrastructure that helps organizations safely use cloud, data, and AI technologies.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and own high-performance, scalable data platform components.
• Build, deploy, and optimize streaming infrastructure and foundational services for analytics and machine learning.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, architects, and cross-functional partners on system design and implementation.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, performance analysis, and tuning.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the technology stack.
• Coach and mentor engineers while helping scale the engineering organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with an object-oriented programming language, preferably Java.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based distributed computing technologies, including messaging, data processing, storage, compute, coordination, and scheduling systems.
• Experience with technologies such as Kinesis, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Beam, Snowflake, Hadoop, Kubernetes, or Mesos.
• Experience developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.
• Experience with reliability engineering, data quality, data observability, and incident management.

Nice to have

• Experience with security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure.
• Experience building mission-critical, high-volume services with major public cloud providers.
• Experience developing data integration applications at petabyte scale across batch and online systems.
• Experience developing Kubernetes-based services on AWS.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on high-volume data and machine learning infrastructure with significant technical ownership.
• In-person onboarding experience designed to connect new hires with the mission and team.
• Equity, bonus, health, dental, and vision insurance, where applicable.
• RRSP matching, healthcare spending support, telemedicine, PTO, and parental leave according to applicable plans and policies.