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Staff Software Engineer – Go

Staff Software Engineer – Go

CompanyOkta
LocationToronto, ON, Canada
Salary$135000 – $203000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • are an experienced backend software engineer with a background in Golang or programming languages with memory pointers
  • comfortable with giving and processing constructive feedback while also working independently
  • comfortable with doing analysis and refactoring prior to implementation
  • comfortable spotting and working to resolve ambiguity in requirements
  • familiar with networking (IP addressing, routing, firewalls)
  • familiar with Kubernetes, HashiCorp Terraform
  • familiar with things like: GitHub, Make, Git, OpenAPI, Docker, IntelliJ/Golang
  • familiarity on working with products for different operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux)
  • experience with HashiCorp Vault
  • experience working in a team doing Agile
  • experience providing and receiving code reviews
  • comfortable with non HTTP-based protocols (SSH, RDP, TLS, LDAP, etc)
  • comfortable with Linux shell scripting
  • comfortable with PKI related concepts and protocols (asymmetric keys, trust stores, JWTs, TLS, etc)
  • Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies.
  • Have the ability to design database models and backend APIs.
  • Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership.
  • Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.

Responsibilities

  • Work on Backend Systems written in GO
  • Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
  • Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
  • Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
  • Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
  • Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • you prefer frontend UI work with JavaScript/TypeScript
  • have no experience outside of a standard three-tier monolith (frontend talks to backend talks to database)
  • you have only worked on greenfield projects
  • have no Linux experience