Senior Platform Engineer, Runtime (Auth0)
Job Description
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. 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.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
The Auth0 platform secures more than 100 million logins each day for customers all around the world - and we're growing fast! The Platform Runtime team enables Auth0 engineers to move faster by giving them the foundational infrastructure to deploy and manage their services on AWS and Azure. This is a role with a huge impact. You will get to work with engineers throughout the organization and what you build will be a foundational piece of the infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, availability, and delivering customer value. Because we build and support the overall Auth0 platform, the ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about low level infrastructure, operations, and not intimidated by cross-organization coordination and collaboration.
You will:
- Serve as the ultimate technical authority and final escalation point for advanced Kubernetes cluster troubleshooting, ensuring the continuous stability and resilience of our foundational infrastructure.
- Define and enforce organization-wide standards and architectural guidelines for Terraform. You will maintain core provider functionality and oversee critical security protocols, including automated credential rotation machinery.
- Develop and maintain application deployment standards, managing Kustomize and built-ins to standardize and streamline deployments across all product teams.
- Orchestrate complex GitOps workflows leveraging ArgoCD and Argo Workflows. You will take full ownership of Environment Lifecycle Management, handling everything from environment creation, synchronization, and user onboarding to failover procedures and safe deletion.
- Architect the Testing Automation Framework to support dynamic environment provisioning and destruction. This will enable advanced quality assurance practices, such as chaos testing, while empowering teams to manage their own test workflows.
- Oversee the Control Plane infrastructure, guaranteeing operational stability and managing essential platform services, including HashiCorp Vault and our fleet of self-hosted GitHub Action Runners.
- Lead the intra-
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