Senior Software Engineer, Tuning; Auth

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.

Auth0 is a product unit of Okta, focused on the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) space. We are looking for exceptional new team members to join our team and help drive our next level of success.

Okta is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Performance Engineering team. Auth0’s business is growing and evolving quickly. Traffic volume has grown substantially and new features are continually introduced. As a cloud‑based SaaS provider, bringing scalable, high‑performance identity solutions to production at an attractive price is a priority for our business.

The Performance Engineering team has a cross‑functional charter that involves investigating, identifying, and remediating performance bottlenecks across all parts of our distributed system machinery. This includes the code we write, data stores, messaging systems, infrastructure, and the points at which different parts of the system communicate with one another. The team works closely with component owners, test engineers, and architects to identify bottlenecks and develop software changes or other recommendations to improve performance.

• Perform analysis and write code to remove performance bottlenecks throughout our software.
• Develop software in Node.js and some Golang in multiple services that will run in production and help us serve billions of logins per month.
• Write decision records and RFCs to communicate technical tradeoffs and approaches and drive awareness and consensus.
• Work cross‑functionally with service owners, architects, project managers, as well as platform and quality teams to drive performance improvements across our tech stack.
• Partner with staff‑level performance engineers to identify and optimize performance improvements for application architecture, implementation and telemetry.
• Help nurture a “shift left” culture for performance, improving knowledge and awareness of performance management techniques, tools, patterns, and solutions throughout Engineering.
• Have the opportunity to work with all parts of the Customer Identity Cloud service offering, including code, infrastructure, and architecture.

• Experience in senior software engineering roles in a remote work environment.
• Strong self‑motivation and aptitude for investigation and experimentation.
• Experience developing application software in Node.js using frameworks such as Hapi.js or Fastify; familiarity with Golang is also a plus.
• Experience with API‑driven cloud‑native distributed system architecture running in Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure.
• Experience with APM tools such as Datadog APM, Splunk, Honeycomb, New Relic, Dynatrace, or similar.
• Familiarity with Postgre
  
  SQL and Mongo
  
  DB.
• Experience designing and executing performance experiments to validate improvements in key metrics such as requests per second (RPS), P95 and P99 latency, query performance, request concurrency, CPU/memory utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in conveying technical issues and solutions to disparate teams.
• Passion for driving performance improvement in software without sacrificing reliability or security.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of cross‑functional collaboration.

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. Okta also 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…