Software Engineering Manager - Core & Resilience Engineering

About the role

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 Core Engineering Team

Okta powers authentication and authorization for thousands of organizations worldwide. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for billions of logins worldwide. Within Okta, the Core team builds software and frameworks and works with infrastructure teams to deliver 99.99% uptime for our core authentication and authorization products.

The Software Engineering Manager Opportunity

Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization, and resiliency are first-class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Manage a distributed team, including setting expectations and removing blockers, creating a collaborative working environment, hiring and recruitment, providing coaching and career management discussions

• Collaborate with managers, architects, product owners, project managers, test partners, security and operations engineers to implement best practices related to resilience

• Communicate and organize cross-team projects with high business impact

• Contribute to defining the strategic direction and roadmap for the team

• Develop backend frameworks and tools for the entire engineering organization to use at scale

• Participate in the incident RCA process to continuously improve reliability and scale

• Provide technical guidance to the engineers on the team

• Drive the evaluation, development, and rollout of new services

• Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.

• Evaluate existing systems to evolve them to support Okta's future business needs

• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• Experienced in stakeholder management including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback

• Adaptable to changing requirements and the ability to manage a team during a pivot in priorities.

• Prior management experience of a distributed and diverse team

• Experience with software architecture across the entire stack (design and implementation), including:

• Understanding of monolithic applications and microservices

• Cloud Infrastructure experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Datastores (SQL, NoSQL, Key/Value)

• Containers (Docker, K8s)

• Solid understanding of the Java platform

• Experience with SaaS

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

• Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization

• Experience with Golang

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The Okta Experience

• Supporting Your Well-Being

• Driving Social Impact

• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

We 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.

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