Software Engineering Manager - Core & Resilience Engineering
Okta
Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Prior management experience of a distributed and diverse team
- Experience with software architecture across the entire stack
- In-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate impact and connect you to mission and team from day one
- Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
- Experience with Golang
- 99.99% uptime for core authentication and authorization products
Role overview
The Software Engineering Manager role on Okta's Core Engineering team involves managing a distributed team of engineers, driving technical strategy, and overseeing shared infrastructure services that support the broader organization. Responsibilities include setting expectations, removing blockers, hiring, coaching, collaborating with cross-functional partners, defining roadmap, developing backend frameworks, guiding technical work, operating and scaling services, and participating in incident analysis.
Responsibilities
- Manage a distributed team, including setting expectations and removing blockers, creating a collaborative working environment, hiring and recruitment, providing coaching and career management discussions
- Collaborate with managers, 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
- Drive the evaluation, development, and rollout of new services
- Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.
- Evaluate existing systems to evolve them to support Okta's future business needs
- Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers
Requirements
- 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)
- 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
Nice to have
- Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
- Experience with Golang
Benefits
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
- We are intentional about connection.
- Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate.
- Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
- 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.
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Additional details
- The Core Engineering Team Okta powers authentication and authorization for thousands of organizations worldwide. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for billions of logins worldwide. Within Okta, the Core team builds software and frameworks and works with infrastructure teams to deliver 99.99% uptime for our core authentication and authorization products.
- The Software Engineering Manager Opportunity Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization, and resiliency are first-class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.
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