Staff Software Engineer (Actions (Auth0))
Company: Okta
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-17
About this role
- This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We’re all in on this mission. If you are too, let’s talk
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our high-caliber Extensibility Engineering team to help us continue to improve our ultra-low latency, secure, and scalable platform for untrusted code execution. In this role, you will have the opportunity to significantly contribute to the foundation of the Customer Identity Ecosystem, realizing a huge impact for our customers and partners
- Lead, Design, architect, and document large-scale projects using technologies such as Node.js, Golang, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes
- Mentors others by coaching and delegating responsibilities to others. Collaborates with Engineering Manager on buy-in and direction
- Contribute to improving Auth0’s architecture, performance, observability, security controls, and best practices
- Collaborate with Product and Security teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s Extensibility platform and architecture
- Participate in our on-call rotations for troubleshooting production issues
### Benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health + Wellness
- Financial Benefits
- Pay + Incentives
- Time Off
- Everyday Living
- Resources- Experience with sandboxing untrusted code or tenant isolation (both preferred but not required)
- 8+ years of experience in software development building distributed systems (Node.js and/or Go)
- Experience with packaging and distributing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong experience in API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC
- A high bar for both code quality as well as quality of user experience
- Proven ability to collaborate with others to drive initiatives forward
- An understanding of evergreen infrastructure and CI/CD best practices
- Frontend application development in React/Angular (or other JavaScript frameworks) is a plus