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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
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About The Resilience Team
Okta's Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) powers authentication and authorization for thousands of organizations across the world. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for billions of logins worldwide. Within WIC, the Resilience team builds software and frameworks and works with infrastructure reliability teams to deliver 99.99% uptime for our core authentication and authorization products.
About The Software Engineering Manager Opportunity
Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering, Resiliency, this role as Software Engineering Manager will drive resilience improvements for Workforce Identity products at Okta. Here you'll be working with some of the most advanced technology in the space, and help to streamline and secure billions of access requests a year for your customers. In this role, you will champion resilience during feature design, and address gaps in existing services by building new capabilities. The ideal candidate brings passion and a track record in leading a backend infrastructure development team, can hold technical ground with some of the most skilled engineers and has a willingness to work collaboratively with stakeholders in adjacent teams.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Collaborate with 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
- Management of a global team including setting expectations and removing blockers, creating a collaborative working environment, hiring and recruitment, providing coaching and career management discussions
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
Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
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