Manager, Engineering

About This Role

This engineering management role leads the product development team for Okta's fast-growing Privileged Access Management product. It involves securing identities from AI to human, building scalable and reliable products that customers love, and integrating AI to improve productivity and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for building the backend and frontend for PAM features
• Lead the adoption of AI across the team's software development workflows, integrating it thoughtfully to improve productivity, quality, and speed
• Work closely with Product Management to develop and implement the product roadmap
• Empower teams to focus on usability, scale, and reliability
• Recruit great engineers to accelerate work
• Mentor, retain, and develop engineers as they advance in their own careers
• Establish clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for individuals and the team
• Drive the execution and delivery of product features with high quality, collaborating with cross-functional teams, System Architects, QA, and Documentation teams

Requirements

• Managed software engineering teams with end-to-end ownership over their technical stack, development environment, and production performance
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude, with the ability to integrate them effectively into day-to-day engineering workflows
• Excited to build an amazing product and believe the best way to do so is by leading and empowering engineers
• Familiar with infrastructure tools such as AWS, GCP, Ansible, Terraform, or Kubernetes
• Successfully built high-performing engineering teams which deliver their product as a Service
• Opinions on topics like feature flags, CI pipelines, and technical debt
• Comfortable leading geographically distributed teams
• Thrive on autonomy and use it to get stuff done
• 5+ years of experience building SaaS or Infrastructure software products as a software engineer or manager
• 3+ years of experience being hands-on with Golang/Java/C++/C#
• Deep understanding of at least 1 major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• 2+ years of technical management experience
• Bachelor's in CS, or equivalent

Important Details

• Work format: hybrid

About the Company

Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. The company's global community spans over 20 offices worldwide, united by a drive to innovate. Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case, with an elegant Zero Trust architecture purpose-built for the modern cloud.