Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• Manage a distributed team, including setting expectations, hiring, and career management
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, and security engineers to implement resilience best practices
• Communicate and organize cross-team projects with high business impact
• Contribute to the strategic direction and roadmap for the Core Engineering team
• Develop backend frameworks and tools for the entire engineering organization
• Participate in the incident RCA process to improve reliability and scale
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and drive the rollout of new services
• Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks

Requirements

• Experience in stakeholder management, alignment, and prioritization
• Prior management experience of a distributed and diverse team
• Experience with software architecture across the entire stack
• Understanding of monolithic applications and microservices
• Cloud Infrastructure experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with datastores (SQL, NoSQL, Key/Value)
• Experience with containers (Docker, K8s)
• Solid understanding of the Java platform
• Experience with SaaS
• Ability to establish U.S. Person status for federal environment access
• Ability to work in the office 2 days a week

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
• Experience with Golang

About the Company

Okta powers authentication and authorization for thousands of organizations worldwide, making access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for billions of logins.