Okta

Software Engineer, Observability

Okta$110K — $151K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
  • Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem, including managing configurations via Terraform
  • Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Data-driven approach to debugging complex performance bottlenecks
  • Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices

Responsibilities

  • Champion observability best practices across engineering teams
  • Run services effectively in production environments
  • Contribute to designing services for high growth and availability
  • Provision and configure cloud-native infrastructure
  • Build and maintain scalable observability infrastructure
  • Troubleshoot and resolve performance and operational issues
  • Automate operational tasks and enhance existing scripts
  • Participate in major incident response to identify telemetry gaps

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • RRSP with a match
  • Healthcare spending
  • Telemedicine access
  • Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave
  • Comprehensive onboarding experience to connect with the company mission
Full Job Description
The Auth0 Platform Observability team owns the observability tooling that monitors the Auth0 Platform, and we are looking for an Observability Engineer to help ensure that our Product and Platform Engineers can monitor and observe our platform while continuing to rapidly ship software that our customers love. Our engineers maintain and automate observability tooling for our entire platform, including metrics, logs, and traces.

We are looking for engineers passionate about monitoring, observing, measuring uptime and availability, and ensuring platform stability. If you have experience within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) field or working as a Development Operations (DevOps) engineer, and you have a passion for Observability tooling, this position will allow you to further your learning and development in these areas.

As an Engineer on this team, you will act as a core technical leader. You will work cross-functionally to help integrate services with our instrumentation libraries, support product teams, and actively investigate incidents to identify our observability gaps.
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.
Qualifications:
  • 3+ 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.


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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:

$110,000-$151,800 CAD

The Okta Experience
  • 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.

About Okta

Okta is a leading provider of identity and access management solutions for enterprises. The company's cloud-based platform enables organizations to securely connect people and technology, providing secure access to applications and data from any device, anywhere, at any time. Okta's solutions are used by thousands of organizations worldwide, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Okta is committed to providing innovative solutions that help organizations stay secure and productive in today's digital world.
Learn more about Okta
Size
5,342 employees
Market Cap
$10.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$266.3 million
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+51.9%
Revenue
$835.4 million
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