Senior Software Performance Analysis Engineer

We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.
We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you. Auth0 is a product unit of Okta, focused on the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) space. We are looking for exceptional new team members to join our team and help drive our next level of success. Okta is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Performance Engineering team.
As a cloud-based SaaS provider, bringing scalable, high performance identity solutions to production at an attractive price is a priority for our business. The Performance Engineering team has a cross-functional charter that involves investigating, identifying, and remediating performance bottlenecks across all parts of our distributed system machinery. The Performance Engineering team works closely with component owners, test engineers, and architects to identify performance bottlenecks, and then develops software changes or other recommendations to improve performance.
As a Senior Engineer, you will perform analysis and write code to remove performance bottlenecks throughout our software.
Develop software in Node.js and some Golang in multiple services that will run in production and help us serve billions of logins per month.
Write decision records and RFC’s to communicate technical tradeoffs and approaches and drive awareness and consensus.
You will work cross-functionally with service owners, architects, project managers, as well as platform and quality teams to drive performance improvements across our tech stack.
You will partner with Staff level performance engineers to identify and optimize performance improvements for application architecture, implementation and telemetry.
You will nurture a “shift left” culture for performance. You will work to improve knowledge and awareness of performance management techniques, tools, patterns, and solutions throughout Engineering in order to address performance issues earlier in the software development life cycle.
You will have the opportunity to work with all parts of the Customer Identity Cloud service offering, including code, infrastructure, and architecture.

Experience in senior software engineering roles in a remote work environment.
Experience developing application software in Node.js using frameworks such as Hapi.js or Fastify. Experience with API-driven cloud-native distributed system application architecture running in Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure.
Familiarity with PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Experience designing and executing performance experiments designed to validate performance improvements in key metrics such as requests per second (RPS), P95 and P99 latency, query performance, request concurrency, CPU/memory utilization, and cost efficiency.
In particular, the ability to convey technical issues and solutions in written form and work with disparate teams is important in a remote-friendly team.
Passion for driving performance improvement in software without sacrificing reliability or security.

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#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. The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $118,000—$161,700 CAD What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
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