Staff Software Reliability Engineer (Data Platform)

TL;DR

Staff Software Reliability Engineer (Data Platform): Designing and scaling high-volume, low-latency distributed data services with an accent on streaming infrastructure and data observability. Focus on building foundational components using Kinesis, Flink, and Snowflake to enable advanced analytics and ML capabilities.

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)

Salary: $160,000 — $220,000 CAD

Company

Okta provides neutral identity infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace AI and secure every identity.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and own high-performance, scalable platform components for data-intensive systems.
• Collaborate with architects and cross-functional partners to develop and deploy streaming infrastructure.
• Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and performance tuning to optimize system efficiency.
• Coach and mentor engineers to help scale the engineering organization.
• Debug production issues across multiple levels of the stack and manage incidents.
• Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability.

Requirements

• Location: Must be based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• 5+ years of industry experience.
• 2+ years of experience with an object-oriented language, preferably Java.
• Hands-on experience with distributed computing technologies: messaging (Kinesis, Kafka), processing (Flink, Spark, Beam), and storage (Snowflake, Databricks).
• Strong experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.
• Expertise in reliability engineering, specifically data quality, observability, and incident management.

Nice to have

• Experience maintaining security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure.
• Experience building mission-critical, high-volume services using major public cloud providers (AWS).
• Background in developing petabyte-scale data integration applications for batch and online systems.
• Contributions to distributed systems like Kafka or Hadoop.
• Experience developing Kubernetes-based services on the AWS stack.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base salary with equity and bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• RRSP with company match and healthcare spending accounts.
• Telemedicine and paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
• Immersive in-person onboarding experience to accelerate impact and team connection.