Principal Engineer, Performance Tuning

Okta is looking for a Principal 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.

As a Principal Engineer, you will:

• Serve as a senior technical expert within the team, performing complex analysis and writing 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.
• Work cross-functionally with service owners, architects, project managers, as well as platform and quality teams to drive performance improvements across our tech stack.
• Nurture a "shift left" culture for performance, improving knowledge and awareness of performance management techniques, tools, patterns, and solutions throughout Engineering.
• Have the opportunity to work with all parts of the Customer Identity Cloud service offering, including code, infrastructure, and architecture.

What you bring:

• Experience in senior software engineering roles in a remote work environment.
• Strong self-motivation and aptitude for investigation and experimentation.
• Experience developing application software in Node.js using frameworks such as Hapi.js or Fastify. Familiarity with Golang is also a plus.
• Experience with API-driven cloud-native distributed system application architecture running in Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure.
• Experience with APM tools such as Datadog APM, Splunk, Honeycomb, New Relic, Dynatrace, or similar.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Experience designing and executing performance experiments designed to validate performance improvements in key metrics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for driving performance improvement in software without sacrificing reliability or security.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration.

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