Okta, Inc. - Senior Software Engineer, Observability (Auth0)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada$136k - $136k+ Equity1w ago

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Requirements

• 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience • Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure • Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking), including establishing alerting standards, implementing tagging taxonomies, and managing Datadog configurations via Terraform. • Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang • Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). • A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks. • Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices. • Experience in coaching and mentoring more junior engineers. • Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and collaborate seamlessly with multiple engineering teams. • Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications. • 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. In addition, Okta 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 accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can. • The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:$136,000—$187,000 CAD • Supporting Your Well-Being • Driving Social Impact • Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community • We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Responsibilities

• Proven ability to champion observability best practices, acting as an educator who can effectively correct anti-patterns and teach other engineering teams how to build robust, standardized instrumentation. • Be an expert in running services in production environments • Contribute to the process of designing services for high growth and high availability. • Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services • Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform. • Troubleshoot performance issues and operational issues. • Automating operational tasks and improving scripts. • Assisting with and providing feedback for performance testing and automation • Actively participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify critical gaps in our current telemetry tooling. • Act as a technical leader, driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards across the broader engineering organization.