Senior Manager of Software Engineering, Okta

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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
• 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