Manager, Engineering

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.

The Team

Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. It integrates directly with an organization’s existing services such as directories and identity systems, as well as many other applications.

With Okta Workflows, organizations can automate processes quickly, easily, at a large scale, and low total cost - all within an intuitive, no-code interface. Hundreds of customers, including NTT, MGM, Netflix, and more, trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

The Opportunity

Okta is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team that is fundamentally expanding the possibilities of functional visual programming. The team builds the IDE where our customers build and run visual flow programs that integrate and orchestrate various SaaS products together. Okta Workflows allows a customer to very quickly and with no-code build complex, secure and scalable processes that enable identity centric scenarios across many SaaS applications. Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services.

This role is responsible for front-line management, team growth and supporting the team in all Okta processes needed to run an efficient organization. As a rapidly growing team in a fast growth company, this role will be responsible for working with management to realize the vision, help inform strategy and communicate across the organization to set and track dependencies and help other engineering teams embed or build on Okta Workflows. To be successful you would need to bring innovation to everyday problems, lead the team to beat our objectives, engage in future-scale thinking, constantly improve our processes to increase our efficiency and continuously invest in our people to ensure their personal and professional growth.

We are looking for a tenacious hands-on manager who is ready to roll up their sleeves and dig into the code if needed and help our front-end teams deliver the future of visual development in Identity centric workflows. Hundreds of organizations around the world depend on running their mission critical identity processes on Okta and this role requires the manager to be always on and quarter-back live site incidents.

You will share our passion and pride in joining an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for scale, reliability and performance using industry best practices to deliver high-quality software. You will partner with the product team and business development to build a compelling product and introduce critical new capabilities to drive adoption of our platform and enrich our ecosystem. 

We run fast and flexible, have a weekly agile release cycle and foster individual ownership. We expect big things from our managers and reward them with stimulating projects, big problems to solve, new and emerging technologies and the opportunity to contribute to the growth of a company that is enabling any company to adopt any technology.

This is a hybrid-work opportunity with the requirement of 2-3 days of in-person presence in the Bengaluru office.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers
• Mentor and grow the team to develop and excel in their area of expertise
• Regularly assesses, addresses and expose risks associated with deliverables 
• Drive cross-functional and cross-departmental product architecture review and discussions 
• Establish strong relationships across the organization with engineering leadership and field teams 
• Establish metrics and processes for regular assessment and drive improvements
• Set clear expectations and foster a positive environment that rewards hard work
• Recruit and mentor software engineers to become engineering leaders
• Handle customer escalations indirectly (through Support) or directly when deemed necessary 
• Work collaboratively with Product Management, QA, Documentation, Operations and Support

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years of hands-on management of full stack engineering teams with experience building IDE’s (Integrated Development Environment)
• Managed a team of engineers at a software company in a Live Site environment
• Experience working with modern UI/JS frameworks (e.g., React, VueJS, NodeJS)
• Demonstrable experience in API development and API-first approach
• Solid grasp of modern software engineering principles and practices
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with teams, peers and management
• Experience building programming languages and compilers is highly desired

Education and Training

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

What you can look forward to as an Full-Time 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/.

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