Senior Software Engineer, Observability (Auth0) at Okta | CA | Rezi

Senior Software Engineer, Observability (Auth0) at Okta

Senior Software Engineer, Observability (Auth0)

Okta · CA

3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Observability (Auth0)

Okta · CA

23 days ago
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About the Role

Okta is seeking an Observability Engineer to join the Auth0 Platform Observability team. This role is crucial for ensuring Product and Platform Engineers can effectively monitor and observe the Auth0 Platform as it rapidly evolves. The team maintains and automates observability tooling, including metrics, logs, and traces, for the entire platform. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work in a mission-driven environment.

Responsibilities

  • Champion observability best practices and educate engineering teams on robust, standardized instrumentation.
  • Act as an expert in running services in production environments.
  • Contribute to 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 and operational issues.
  • Automate operational tasks and improve scripts.
  • Assist with and provide feedback for performance testing and automation.
  • Participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify telemetry gaps.
  • Act as a technical leader driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ 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.

Skills

  • Observability
  • Metrics
  • Logs
  • Traces
  • Error Tracking
  • Terraform
  • Node.js
  • Golang
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Vector

Location

  • Canada

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior

Salary/Compensations

  • $136,000—$187,000 CAD

Benefits

  • Equity (where applicable)
  • Bonus
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • RRSP with a match
  • Healthcare spending
  • Telemedicine
  • Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the Company

  • Okta is a global company with over 20 offices worldwide, united by a drive to innovate. They are focused on securing every identity, from AI to human, by building trusted, neutral infrastructure. Okta enables organizations to safely embrace the potential of AI. Their culture emphasizes speed, urgency, and excellence, with a commitment to supporting well-being, driving social impact, and developing talent and fostering connection.

Equal Opportunity

  • Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. Okta also considers for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
  • If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
  • Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.