Staff Software Engineer, Okta FGA Integrations (Customer Identity)

Spain

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The FGA Team

The Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) provides robust access management solutions, such as Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) to power customer-facing applications and websites. FGA is a multi-Region software as a service (SaaS) offering for flexible, fine-grained authorization at any scale. It’s based on relationship-based access control (ReBAC), which is an evolution of role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) authorization models.

The Staff Software Engineer Opportunity

Reporting to the engineering manager, this role will be influential as the product grows to a strong, mature authorization service that exceeds our customer’s needs.

What you’ll be doing

  • Delivering features across our FGA product range using Go that are scalable, resilient, and testable

  • Empowering your teammates and enhancing the abilities of those around you

  • Promoting a culture of inclusion, continuous improvement, and collaboration

  • Identifying opportunities for enhancing our products and development processes

  • Collaborating closely with engineering and product across the Authorization domain to deliver against our product goals

  • Translating complex technical requirements into clear and concise criteria for the team

  • Participate in our on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.

What you’ll bring to the role

  • A continuous improvement and collaborative mindset

  • A bias for action and appetite for learning

  • A passion for authorization and the entire identity space

  • An attitude that builds up and creates multipliers across the team

  • 8+ years of software development experience

  • Expertise in software development building distributed systems in Go

  • Experience building developer-friendly, API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC

  • Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for complex technical initiatives

  • Experience building applications with amazing scale and resiliency

  • Experience with stream processing tools such as Kafka, or CDC tools such as Debezium

  • Experience with tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

  • Hands on Observability experience

  • Hands on experience with OpenFGA

  • Hands on experience with Auth0

 

What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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