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Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.\nThis is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.\nWe're looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test, who is eager to drive non-functional load testing, identify critical optimization areas, and conduct in-depth analysis to understand \"what's broken and why.\" as well as “How can we improve the simulation?” \nYou'll be at the forefront of research and development, uncovering efficiencies at a platform level and collaborating with engineering teams across the organization to implement solutions.\nThis isn't your typical QA or testing role, but rather a deep engineering role focused on performance load testing\nAbout the Team:\nOur Performance Load testing team operates on a hub-spoke model, with a core focus on deep understanding load generation systems, test data generation, andnode.jsand golang applications.\nWe partner with engineering teams from across all products and platforms at Auth0, working to create more accurate simulated load generation and data generation tests. \nYou'll be supporting specific teams with performance load coverage, load optimization and testing and ensuring our systems not only maintain their current high level of performance but continuously evolve and improve.\nYou will partner with other senior load testing engineers, and mentor more junior engineers, working to achieve a high level of team impact. \nWhat We're Looking For:\nProgramming Knowledge: Experience with a programming language like Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Golang is a requirement. We're looking for someone with a tester's mindset who can understand code, databases and data structures and collaborate effectively with our engineering teams to ensure high-quality software.\nExperience with Databases: Have used databases such as MongoDb or SQL to store configuration or user data, understand tradeoffs between persistence and performance, and have used optimizations in these areas. Familiarity with indexes, query planners a plus. The ability to understand complex join queries and model datasets that leverage them.\n Microservices & Kubernetes Exposure: High-level understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and microservices architecture.\nPublic Cloud Experience: Familiarity with public cloud environments, AWS and Azure. \nA \"Developer\" Mindset: You're passionate about digging into code, understanding system behavior, and proactively identifying areas for optimization.\nObservability tooling experience: Experience using or implementing datadog, new relic, open tracing, open telemetry or similar request tracing tooling. Load testing tool experience with: Jmeter, Apache Bench, Artillery, etc. Linux and Containers: You have leveraged linux and containers in production in the past. \nYou have deep testing experience, 5+ years working with advanced load generation and analysis systems and tools. \nYou understand Agentic AI tools, Experience with tools like Claude, Gemini, CoPilot implementing agents, skills, workflows and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, Git hooks and review processes.\nWhy Join Us?\nHigh Scale, High Impact: Work on a global identity platform with millions of users, where your contributions will have a significant and immediate impact across our entire engineering organization.\nSolve Complex Problems: Tackle challenging performance and resilience issues in a distributed, high-throughput environment.\nExceptional Growth Opportunities:\nAccess to conferences and ongoing learning.\nMentorship from staff and senior team members.\nExposure to low-level problems, infrastructure knowledge, microservices, and Kubernetes scheduling optimization.\nOpportunities to go deep into areas that genuinely interest you, continuously expanding your skillset.\n#LI_hybrid\nP24595\nThe Okta Experience\nSupporting Your Well-Being \nDriving Social Impact \nDeveloping Talent and Fostering Connection + Community\nWe are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.\nOkta 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. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.\nIf reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.\nNotice 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. 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