Get to know Okta

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. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0 technology, is an easy to implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers.  We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.

Our commitment to identity inspires and sustains our Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging strategy as we aim to celebrate and protect the identities of everyone in our network. Click here to learn more about our commitment to building balanced teams.

The Team:CIC’s Platform App Services team owns foundational services that protect the Platform’s stability and improve operational efficiency for our product services. We use a modern cloud-native tech stack that runs on AWS and Azure. We’ve adopted frameworks, tooling, and practices that optimize for developer productivity and joy.

As Engineering Manager of the Platform App Services team, you'll be the technical leader responsible for guiding a team of 5-8 backend engineers to build and operate CIC’s mission-critical platform services. You will help drive technical decisions, prioritize and organize the team’s work, and provide mentorship and career growth opportunities to your team members. 

What you’ll do:

• Lead a diverse, talented, high-performing team of backend engineers, geographically dispersed over Europe and the Americas
• Encourage inclusivity, engagement, innovation, and quality orientation on the team
• Grow the team through hiring, coaching, and professional development
• Be an active and influential contributor in prioritization, technical decision-making, and architecture reviews
• Continually refine the team’s ways of working and team-external processes, to deliver a sustainable and predictable flow of value
• Ensure technical maturity, reliability, security, and operational excellence for services owned by team
• Shape roadmap and strategy for the CIC Platform, working with product management and with other engineering teams

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years of experience in a formal people management role
• Experience working with remote and geographically dispersed teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, to engage effortlessly across teams and functions
• Effective presentation skills to establish thought leadership in the team’s domain
• Background in developing cloud-native distributed systems using modern technologies such as go, node.js, noSQL databases, Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure

Bonus Points:

• Experience in the identity and access management (IAM) business domains
• Experience at an enterprise SaaS product organization
• Hands-on experience with operating and scaling high-throughput cloud-based software systems
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• Master’s degree in a relevant field

  Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.          
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

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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.   

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:$166,000—$250,000 USD The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $186,000—$280,000 USD

What you can look forward to as an Full-Time 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/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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