Engineering Manager - Access Essentials - Core Product
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
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.
The Access Management team drives billions of authentications every month. The team builds and supports single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, and threat protection technologies. Our Access Management service runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform with 99.99% availability.
Passwordless is the future of identity and authentication, which is why we, at Okta, have made it our goal to redefine how users authenticate to services. Devices are central to our mission. The Okta Verify app that facilitates passwordless authentication is available for iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
About the role
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Client Foundations team. Operating under the larger Access Essentials group, the Client Foundations team supports our mission by building libraries, tooling, security and infrastructure for iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows platforms. The Client Foundation team is central to our success in this mission and ensures that we can ship innovation in a fast, reliable and secure manner. The Engineering Manager will be responsible for managing a team of software engineers that are domain experts in individual device platforms.
What you’ll be doing
At a high level, you’ll be managing your team’s goals, contributing to product strategy and helping to develop your employees. More specifically, you will -
- Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and customer satisfaction.
- Contribute to defining the strategic direction (product & technical) and roadmap for the team.
- Ensure technical leadership is being provided to the engineers on the team in terms of scalable and maintainable systems. Ensure a high-quality bar through testing and testing automation.
- Participate in and enable key team processes to organize & deliver key projects with high business impact.
- Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent. Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations and removing blockers, and feedback and coaching opportunities.
Required Skills, Attitude and Knowledge:
- 3+ years managing engineering teams, balancing new feature/product development and maintaining existing features.
- Experience in stakeholder management, including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback.
- Demonstrated focus on delivering outcomes, balancing constraints and tight deadlines.
- 10-15 years of prior development experience with at least 4 years as macOS, iOS, or Android engineer. While this role is a people management one, you’ll still need to bring relevant technical experience to ensure sound technical decision-making.
- Experience and strong opinions on SDLC with testing automation & release orchestration using gating feature flags & configuration mgmt, and CI / CD platforms.
- Demonstrable knowledge of secure web development fundamentals, fault-tolerant systems, and knowledge of cloud technologies.
- 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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