Software Engineering Manager - Core & Resilience Engineering
Okta · Posted Oct 14
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta powers authentication and authorization for thousands of organizations worldwide, and within Okta the Core team builds software and frameworks and works with infrastructure teams to deliver 99.99% uptime for its core authentication and authorization products. The Core Engineering team owns shared infrastructure and services such as search, cache, configuration management, async job management frameworks, and the email pipeline, and is cloud native with redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization, and resiliency as first-class concerns. This Software Engineering Manager role leads a distributed team, develops backend frameworks and tools used across the engineering organization, and drives the evaluation, rollout, and scaling of shared services to support resilience.
What you will do
- 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
- Experience with Golang
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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