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.

We are looking for a developer with an entrepreneurial itch to scratch.

At Okta, we believe that Authorization is currently where Authentication was 15 years ago. We want to help the industry solve authorization in the same way we helped in solving authentication.

We are building Okta Fine Grained Authorization (FGA), an authorization service for developers that we believe is going to reshape the industry. Okta FGA is built on top of OpenFGA, an open source product owned by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and maintained primarily by Okta.

Okta FGA is a new product in a new market and it’s growing at a very fast pace. We are looking for someone who can thrive in such an environment, and can lead the charge in planning, design, and even prototype the best solutions to satisfy our customers' needs.  

This role will work closely with architecture, engineering, and product leadership to define scope and priority. Will write requirements and specifications dictating behavior, lifecycle, API endpoints and relevant design constraints, and help the development team while executing it.

Development experience is required. The highly technical nature of the problem space and the audience makes this role instrumental in driving Okta FGA forward.

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Build innovative solutions 
• Work with architecture, the engineering team, and product leadership team to convert the business needs into detailed requirements and specifications that can be picked up by the team for development
• Adapt new and existing standards into designs to continue the trend of pushing thought leadership and best practices in the industry
• Collaborate with product marketing and developer relations to support creation of technical content that can be used to instruct customers and partners how to operate the feature
• Develop requirements and acceptance criteria for scalable and secure solutions

• Develop, research, and educate business partners on requirements
• Understand core business problems and requirements from customers, prospects, sales and support to inform product decisions in owned area

• Engage, motivate and collaborate
• Identify dependencies and drive the meetings to collaborate
• Evangelize best practices and how they solve problems we face 
• Design solutions that have iterative phases with incremental value 

 QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 3+ years of web development
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager
• Strong understanding of Agile concepts including Kanban
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working with cross-functional teams building software
• Experience building products for developers in a SaaS company
• Willingness to learn

BONUS POINTS:

• Understanding of highly scalable distributed systems
• Ability to adapt to a newly formed time in a global remote-first setting
• Enthusiasm and excitement for helping the industry solve authorization 
• Experience in the Identity Management or Security industry  

 

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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:$140,000—$189,000 USD

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/.

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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