Senior Engineering Manager

Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity 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.

Position Description

Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management platform, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta, organizations can manage access across any application, person, or device. Whether the people are employees, partners, or customers or the applications are in the cloud, on-premises, or on a mobile device, Okta helps organizations become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance. The Okta platform provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built-in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on-premises applications, directories, and identity management systems. We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to work on our Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team with a focus on enhancing, scaling, and managing backend services for managing the user lifecycle and associated access policies (users, groups, roles, entitlements, etc.). These features allow customers the flexibility to link and enhance their business processes with Okta’s identity management product.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Define the team’s short-term and long-term strategy, working with Product Management.
• Define the team's roadmap, success metrics, and priorities in close collaboration with product management and lead engineers. Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly.
• Understand the team’s feature roadmap at a detailed level, with the ability to speak to changes at a PR level, to other leads.
• Hire and create career paths within your team for engineers.
• Provide guidance on topics like feature flags, CI pipelines and technical debt. And drive measurable improvements in technical debt.
• Define SLOs and metrics for the team to adhere to, and measure them.
• Demonstrable ability to drive a team where there is a lack of an established roadmap; must be comfortable dealing with ambiguity.

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities

• 3+ years of experience managing software development engineering teams
• Demonstrable prior experience working with a high scale software system. Must have prior experience as a software engineer.
• You will be expected to be technical, and understand details like describing PRs, creating technical design wikis, and driving architecture discussions.
• Work with engineering management and other teams to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, AWS strongly preferred

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

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