Staff Software Engineer (Golang)

About the Team

Tired of hacking together a login system for every new application or microservice that you need to deploy? Want to contribute to a platform that makes authentication for any application super simple?  Then Okta’s Developer Community Products team needs you!

If you're passionate about open-source development and have a solid background in application development with Go, we want you on our team. You'll be instrumental in building and maintaining Okta's automated tools for generating and managing OpenAPI specifications, directly impacting the platform's developer experience. You'll also work closely with leadership to define and execute our technical vision.

About the Role

In this role you will be working on the leading edge of our Open Source Software (OSS) program and will gain invaluable experience with library design and development, as well as interacting with a community of engaged developers who use your work on a daily basis.  This role provides the opportunity to implement clean, well-tested code, adhering to our high standards for quality and maintainability.  You will also have the ability to help guide the direction of this team by building technical designs and working with product management to build the roadmap.

Okta is an extensible identity platform and our APIs allow developers at companies of all sizes to integrate Okta into their own applications.  The Developer Community Products team is responsible for empowering developers by identifying common use cases and creating tools and SDKs that simplify Okta integrations, while helping them understand our product and the protocols that we support.

We are a polyglot team and while we are looking to scale our Golang and Java engineering, we also value a generalist mindset and co-learning across stacks.  We work closely as a team to design solutions that work across languages and environments.

Interested in the work we do?  It's open source, check us out on GitHub ;)

What you'll be doing

• Build Technical Designs for the DCP Team
• Participate in product development and roadmap exercises
• Interact with our customers through GitHub, responding to issues and reviewing pull requests
• Participate in software design and code review for all libraries that the team creates
• Implement holistic testing strategies to assert we're delivering a good developer experience, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Write documentation and how-to content for the libraries that you create

What you bring to the team

• 8+ years working as an application developer (you've written and deployed production code, and can empathize with the development process.)
• Intermediate knowledge of the OpenAPI Spec v3 and/or Swagger
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Experience with API design and development.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Java and Go programming languages.
• Experience with unit and end-to-end testing
• Experience working with a product-oriented, agile culture
• Active involvement with CI/CD concerns, hands-on experience with tools such as CircleCI, Travis, and Jenkins
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Bonus Skills:

• Experience with other languages, such as Java, .NET, Node, or Python
• Experience interacting with other developers on GitHub (e.g. opening issues, contributing to issues, filing pull requests)
• Experience building libraries or tools that are depended on by other developers, internal or external
• Experience with Redoc.ly

#LI-Hybrid

This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our Bengaluru, IN office during the first week of employment.