Staff Software Engineer, Core Service Interfaces (Auth0)

Okta
Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 160,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["NodeJS","JavaScript","TypeScript","MongoDB","PostgreSQL","AWS","Azure","REST APIs","Distributed systems"]

Lead and collaborate on building core backend services and APIs for the Management API and Dashboard, focusing on security, reliability, and scale. Mentor engineers, drive architectural improvements, and work with NodeJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL on AWS/Azure in a fully remote/distributed setup, using AI-assisted tools to accelerate delivery.

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Okta
Okta
3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Core Service Interfaces (Auth0)

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Job Summary

Lead and collaborate on building core backend services and APIs for the Management API and Dashboard, focusing on security, reliability, and scale. Mentor engineers, drive architectural improvements, and work with NodeJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL on AWS/Azure in a fully remote/distributed setup, using AI-assisted tools to accelerate delivery.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide technical direction to the team and implement improvements to scale and security.
  • •Mentor and coach engineers to support growth and keep the team aligned with best practices.
  • •Design and develop features, APIs, and fixes for current and future scale with a focus on security.
  • •Own and evolve core backend services for the Management Dashboard, including authentication, API proxying, and session management.
  • •Improve resilience and stability of services by managing session stores and enforcing appropriate rate limits.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 160,000 - 220,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRrspPaid LeaveTelemedicineParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • •Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative, agile environment.
  • •Passion for building highly reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems.
  • •Deep understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript and building performant RESTful APIs with NodeJS.
  • •Experience designing, maintaining, modernizing, and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and driving technical vision.
Experience:8+ yearsDistributed systemsBackendWeb applicationsDashboards
Skills:NodeJSJavaScriptTypeScriptMongoDBPostgreSQLAWSAzureREST APIsDistributed systems
Languages:English
Tech Stack:NodeJSJavaScriptTypeScriptMongoDBPostgreSQLAWSAzure

Company Brief

Okta
Provides identity and access management cloud solutions that help organizations secure and manage user authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management across applications and devices.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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