Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner with the regional sales team to develop strategic and technical account and territory plans
• Support our customers along their sales journey by showing them the value of the Okta technology through live demonstrations and sales presentations.
• Developing confidence to communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the customer's organization, including CxO, security, developers, Product Managers and IT administrators.
• Serving as the key technical advisor for our customers, leading the technical solutioning phase for our customers, partnering with the sales team and our partners.  Acting as the Technical Advocate for our customers, with Internal Okta teams.
• Execute well-defined, outcome-focussed POCs
• Build and manage technical relationships with Okta Customers, Technology Partners and Delivery Partners.
• Participate in Okta Marketing led events, as a Speaker / Thought Leader and an attendee
• Enjoy travelling and meeting customers. Travel will be mainly domestic.  There may also be opportunities to travel to other Asia Pacific countries to support teammates; and within the US for training and conferences.  

Skills & experiences that will help in the role:

• Minimum of 1-2 years experience in a pre-sales consulting role, or customer facing consulting role.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal, and an ability to quickly communicate complex ideas around a technical topic, using various means, including in front of a whiteboard.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the customer's organisation, including CxO, security, developers, and IT administrators.
• Ability to be organised and analytical, and eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches
• A passion to be in the forefront of technology, learning a diverse set of technologies that Okta integrates with and helping solve real world Identity challenges
• Enjoy being in a fast paced environment, operating at the speed of cloud, to help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud, rapid adoption of technology and design their Zero Trust security strategy with Identity as the foundation.

You might also have (not mandatory):

• Experience with Identity & Access Management, Single Sign-on, Security and API-based solutions
• Experience with at least one standard network security protocol (eg. OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, LDAP)
• Proficient in either IT Security, Identity and Access Management or Developer domains
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field
• Hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: web development (JavaScript, HTML, frontend frameworks), mobile development (iOS, Android), backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) development, IP-based real-time communications
• Software developer experience

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What is Kick?

Kick is a global live-streaming platform for all types of entertainment content. Our mission is to empower content creators, event organisers, and content rights holders by providing them with the tools and revenue-sharing structures they need to monetise and grow their audiences. 

As a result, we are quickly becoming a household name, attracting top-tier creators and expanding rapidly worldwide. You may have seen us in the UFC octagon or on the side of an F1 car, as we seize every opportunity that comes our way. 

Kick is now recognised in the big four of live streaming platforms globally, standing tall alongside YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. In 3 years, we’ve already made a significant impact and have plenty more to achieve. We’re at the beginning of an exciting journey and are looking for brilliant minds to join us.

Why this role in the Discovery & Presence team might interest you:

• World leading product: KICK sits among the big 4 global live streaming platforms, alongside YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch
• Hyper growth: Reached 100M+ users in just 3 years since launch
• Massive scale: This team powers the public facing APIs serving 1B+ requests monthly, within a platform handling 5B+ backend requests daily
• Core impact: Build systems powering discovery, real-time engagement, search, and presence
• Engagement at scale: Drive Drops, Channel Points, and global badges, expand search, build AI-driven personalisation & recommendations, and build campaigns with major game studios (e.g. Rockstar)
• Modern full-stack environment: Microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, Golang, Kafka, React, Next.js, GraphQL, CI/CD, and scalable distributed systems.
• Ownership: Full lifecycle ownership - You Build It, You Run It

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and design scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Optimise existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to effectively communicate technical concepts.
• Innovate within the team by pushing for improvements and driving constructive changes to enhance team performance and efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor mid level engineers in the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 6-7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks relevant to the role (Go, PHP and React/NextJS).
• Strong understanding of code architecture and design principles.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Positive attitude and eagerness to learn new technologies to grow as a full-stack engineer.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience as a Senior Software Engineer in a large-scale product company
• Experience building web applications and debugging production applications

Some of the perks of joining us: 

• Innovate without red tape - have an idea on Monday and push it to production by Friday, while championing engineering excellence across the organisation.
• Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD, Cloudflare, Datadog, Golang and React/Next.js.
• Exposure to global, high-scale products handling 3 billion+ requests per day.
• Explore your career options with opportunities to grow laterally and vertically.
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
• Lucrative annual bonuses.
• EAP access for you and your family.
• 30 days personal leave bundled - use it how you like.
• Paid volunteer day.
• Daily catered breakfast, unlimited snacks and refreshments, plus an in-house full-time barista, fresh juices and smoothies.
• Massage Wednesdays.
• Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays.
• Enjoy a buzzing office with pool tables, table tennis, gaming consoles, product testing tournaments, plus up to 2 days work from home and flexible start/finish times.

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.

What is Kick?

Kick is a global live-streaming platform for all types of entertainment content. Our mission is to empower content creators, event organisers, and content rights holders by providing them with the tools and revenue-sharing structures they need to monetise and grow their audiences. 

As a result, we are quickly becoming a household name, attracting top-tier creators and expanding rapidly worldwide. You may have seen us in the UFC octagon or on the side of an F1 car, as we seize every opportunity that comes our way. 

Kick is now recognised in the big four of live streaming platforms globally, standing tall alongside YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. In 3 years, we’ve already made a significant impact and have plenty more to achieve. We’re at the beginning of an exciting journey and are looking for brilliant minds to join us.

About the team:

The Viewer Engagement and Experience feature development team powers the heart of Kick’s platform and the real-time, high-volume features that keep millions of viewers coming back. We own the core customer experience: seamless live stream viewing, rapid fire live chats, and the real-time community interactions that make Kick, Kick.

From delivering lightning fast chat messaging across massive global events (think 4M+ concurrent viewers) to architecting systems that scale, this team pushes technical limits daily. You’ll tackle complex backend challenges, build and ship user-facing features at scale, and help evolve our architecture as we migrate toward high-performance Golang based services.

If you want to build products used by millions the moment you deploy, and solve some of the most demanding concurrency, performance, and scalability problems in technology, this is where you can make immediate impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and design scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Optimise existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to effectively communicate technical concepts.
• Innovate within the team by pushing for improvements and driving constructive changes to enhance team performance and efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor junior engineers in the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 6-7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks relevant to the role (Go, PHP and React).
• Strong understanding of code architecture and design principles.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Positive attitude and eagerness to learn new technologies to grow as a full-stack engineer.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience as a Senior Software Engineer in a large-scale product company
• Experience building web applications and debugging production applications

Some of the perks of joining us: 

• Champion Engineering Excellence to influence cultural change across the organisation.
• Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kafka, K8's, Terraform, Golang, ArgoCD, Datadog & Cloudflare.
• Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency (3 Billion Requests per day!)
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform 
• EAP access for you and your family
• Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses
• Give back with a paid volunteer day
• Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house
• Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays
• In house full-time barista’s providing you your daily coffee needs
• Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays
• Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.