Senior Software Engineer - SRE

Overview

Senior Software Reliability Engineer on the Data Platform team, building and operating the streaming analytics, end-user reporting, and data and ML infrastructure that Okta's products depend on.

What you'll do

• Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components
• Work with engineering teams, architects and cross-functional partners on project development, design and implementation
• Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis and performance tuning
• Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Participate in the on-call rotation and incident management

What you'll need

• 5+ years of industry experience
• 2+ years of experience in an object-oriented language, preferably Java
• Experience developing Kubernetes-based services
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based distributed computing technologies, including messaging systems such as Kinesis and Kafka
• Data processing systems such as Flink, Spark and Beam
• Storage and compute systems such as Snowflake, Databricks and Hadoop
• Coordinators and schedulers such as those in Kubernetes, Hadoop and Mesos
• Experience developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems
• Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
• Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management
• Experience with reliability engineering in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management

Nice to have

• Maintained security, encryption, identity management or authentication infrastructure
• Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high-volume services
• Hands-on experience developing data integration applications for large-scale (petabyte-scale) environments, across both batch and online systems
• Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality, such as Kafka or Hadoop

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India
• Work mode: Hybrid