data engineer Toronto
Job description
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box. We're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Data Engineering Team
Okta's Business Technology (BT) is on a mission to accelerate Okta's scale and growth. We bring world-class business acumen and technology expertise to every interaction. We also drive cross-functional collaboration and are focused on delivering measurable business outcomes. BT strives to deliver amazing technology experiences for our employees, and ensure that our offices have all the technology that is needed for the future of work.
The Data Engineering team is focused on building platforms and capabilities that are utilized across the organization by sales, marketing, engineering, finance, product, and operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background with the ability to tie engineering initiatives to business impact.
You will be part of a team doing detailed technical designs, development, and implementation of applications using cutting-edge technology stacks.
The Staff Data Engineer Opportunity
Reporting to the Senior Manager, this role is responsible for designing and developing scalable solutions for a large data infrastructure in a fast-paced, Agile environment.
What you'll be doing
- Design scalable and reliable data pipelines to consume, integrate and analyze large volumes of complex data from different sources to support the growing needs of our business.
- Analyze a variety of data sources, structures, and metadata and develop mapping, transformation rules, aggregations and ETL specifications.
- Help define, deploy, and manage a next generation data lake and master data architectures to enable information transparency for our clients and data quality across systems.
- Interface with stakeholders to gather requirements and build functionality
- Experiment with different tools and technology. Share learnings with the team.
What you'll bring to the role
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or another quantitative field of study
- Expertise in a programming language (Python or Java)
- 8+ years in a data engineering role
- 5+ years' experience working with SQL, ETL tools such as Airflow, with relational and columnar MPP databases like Snowflake, Athena or Redshift, and with
- Experience with cloud infrastructure/platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and Data Lake development
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, both technical and non-technical audience
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What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
About Okta
CEO: Todd McKinnon
Revenue: $2 to $5 billion (USD)
Size: 5001 to 10000 Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: www.okta.com
Year Founded: 2009
