Manager, Security Engineering (Customer Identity)

The Role 

We seek a knowledgeable and execution-focused Engineering Manager  to take the security of our Customer Identity products and infrastructure to the next level. This role is a key member of the Security team embedded within the Customer Identity product unit and works across multiple functions to solve security challenges to support the growth of our global Customer Identity business. 

We are an engineering-focused team that seeks to stay on the cutting edge of security technology and the threat landscape. In this role you will work as part of a globally distributed team of talented engineers who share a passion for security and enjoy solving complex problems at scale. 

This role works closely with and alongside the members of the broader Okta Security team in support of Okta’s company-wide security strategy and Okta’s Secure Identity Commitment.

Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a cross geographical security engineering team
• Partner closely with teams and organizations across Engineering, legal  and Product to embed sound technical data security and privacy closely in everything we ship and help uncover risks before they become issues.
• Establish a deep understanding of Okta Customer Identity products, data, and infrastructure.
• Collaborate when necessary with the Okta Security team on security operations.
• Build, deploy & maintain scalable and reliable security infrastructure services for customer identity products for customer identity products.
• Help meet our operational security commitments by thinking like an attacker, assessing the risk, and advising on mitigation strategies.
• Support data security investigations in coordination with the Okta Security, Privacy, and Legal teams, participate in root cause analysis and perform necessary remediations.

Requirements:

• You have 5+ years of people management experience in leading security engineering teams
• Experience in data security, cloud security, or infrastructure security.
• You have experience performing threat models and code reviews.
• You have experience in AWS and/or Azure Infrastructure and security architecture
• You have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following:
• Database principles including familiarity with SQL, noSQL, data warehousing, and DBT.
• Security automation and orchestration.
• Data Protection, Data loss prevention
• You have proficiency with at least one of the following languages:

• • Python
  • Go
  • JavaScript

• You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• You have experience working with a globally distributed and remote team.

Bonus points if:

• You have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following:
• Data pipelines and event streaming platforms such as Kafka.Full-stack engineering.
• You have proficiency writing and deploying Terraform code
• You have experience with the identity and access management (IAM) domain

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• 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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Last updated on Aug 15, 2024