Senior Engineering Manager, Okta
Performance Tuning
$192k
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Job no longer available
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$192k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in a software engineering management role in a remote work environment
- Strong self-motivation and aptitude for investigation and experimentation
- Experience developing application software in Node.js using frameworks such as Hapi.js or Fastify. Familiarity with Golang is also a plus
- Experience with cloud-native distributed system application architecture
- Experience with APM tools such as Datadog APM, Splunk, Honeycomb, New Relic, Dynatrace, or similar
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Ability to design and execute performance experiments designed to validate performance improvements in key metrics such as requests per second (RPS), P95 and P99 latency, query performance, request concurrency, CPU/memory utilization, and cost efficiency
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. In particular, the ability to convey technical issues and solutions in written form and work with disparate teams is important in a remote-friendly team
- Passion for driving performance improvement in software without sacrificing reliability or security
- Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration. One team, one score!
What the job involves
- Okta is looking for an Engineering Manager to build and manage our Performance Engineering team
- This role will report to the Vice President, Architecture & Chief Architect
- As an Engineering Manager, you will “lead from the front” and participate directly in both investigation and coding of solutions in Node.js and/or Golang
- You will be responsible for hiring new performance engineers, project estimation and prioritization, planning, and driving solutions
- You will hire and develop talented performance engineers with a penchant for cross-functional collaboration
- You will work cross-functionally with service owners, architects, project managers, as well as platform and quality teams to drive performance improvements across our systems
- Nurture a “shift left” culture for performance. You will work to improve knowledge and awareness of performance management techniques, tools, patterns, and solutions throughout Engineering in order to address performance issues earlier in the software development life cycle
- You will have the opportunity to work with all parts of the Customer Identity Cloud service offering, including code, infrastructure, and architecture
Our take
Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.
The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. It aims to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.
Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2015
$75m
SERIES F
Jun 2014
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $229.3m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health + Wellness
- Financial Benefits
- Pay + Incentives
- Time Off
- Everyday Living
- Resources
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(Co-Founder & CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Co-Founder & Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
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