Senior Manager, Engineering - Lifecycle Management
Okta · Posted Oct 6
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management platform, built from the ground up in the cloud, providing directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built-in reporting. The Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team focuses on enhancing, scaling, and managing backend services for user lifecycle and associated access policies such as users, groups, roles, and entitlements. This Senior Engineering Manager role leads that team, defining strategy, roadmap, and success metrics while hiring and growing engineers and driving technical direction.
What you will do
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Okta
Okta is a leading independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions that securely connect people and technologies to the right applications. The company powers both Workforce Identity and Customer Identity platforms, allowing organizations to securely manage user access and navigate modern challenges like agentic AI security.
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Company size
- 7500+ employees
- Founded
- 2009
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $228M raised
- 2010-02-01Series A$10M
- 2011-08-01Series B$16.5M
- 2012-12-01Series C$25M
- 2013-09-01Series D$27M
- 2014-06-01Series E$75M
- 2015-09-01Series F$75M
- 2018-02-21Post IPO Debt$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Legal Officer
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