Okta

Okta

Staff Data Engineer - Federal (Auth0)

Washington, District of Columbia · Staff+

No sponsorshipDetected 11 days ago
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About the role

  • We are expanding this team to support Okta's Public Sector roadmap by hiring a Staff Software Engineer in the DC area.
  • You'll work closely with Security, Business Technology Engineering, and Product teams to implement and manage security solutions, ensuring our core infrastructure applications protect our workforce, endpoints, and corporate data.
  • To deliver on this vision, you will build data and infrastructure platforms by leveraging your software, data, and security engineering skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architectural design and evolution of our data platform, defining the roadmap for its future state.
  • Drive technical strategy for large-scale platform enhancements, balancing long-term goals with incremental delivery.
  • Collaborate deeply with engineers and leaders from other data, platform, and security teams to create a unified and secure architecture.
  • Produce architectural artifacts, including design documents, threat models, and technical specifications, to create clarity and alignment for complex initiatives.
  • Implement foundational components of new architecture, proving out designs with hands-on coding and providing a model for other engineers to follow.
  • A passion for building secure, reliable, and scalable data systems.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to create clarity and drive decisions on complex technical topics.
  • The ability to deal with ambiguity, define a path forward, and lead others to successful outcomes.

Requirements

  • This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.
  • As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee.
  • In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with a high bar for code quality and system design.

Nice to have

  • Extensive experience architecting and deploying data infrastructure in a cloud environment (AWS strongly preferred).

Skills

  • Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e

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