- Company: Okta
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: CAD 136,000 – 187,000
About the role
Okta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Auth0 Platform Observability team in Toronto. You will act as a core technical leader, ensuring that product and platform engineers have the tools needed to monitor the platform effectively. This role focuses on maintaining and automating observability tooling for metrics, logs, and traces to support rapid software delivery and platform stability.
Responsibilities
- Champion observability best practices and educate engineering teams on building robust instrumentation.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
- Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services.
- Actively participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify telemetry gaps.
- Troubleshoot performance issues and automate operational tasks to improve efficiency.
- Drive cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation standards across the organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps.
- Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem, including metrics, logs, traces, and error tracking.
- Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Deep understanding of microservice architecture and OpenTelemetry (OTel) or similar frameworks.
- Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and lead cross-functional technical initiatives.
Pay and benefits
The annual base salary range for candidates located in Canada is between CAD 136,000 and CAD 187,000. Actual salary depends on skills, qualifications, and experience. Okta also offers equity (where applicable), bonuses, and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave such as PTO and parental leave.
How to apply
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