Senior Engineering Manager – Core
Okta
APAC/Oceania, India, Bengaluru
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Salary
Rank
Senior Manager
Responsibility
Systems/Data
Scope
Regional
Workplace
Hybrid
Functions
IT
Reports to
Level
N-3
Travel Max:
0%
Posting Date
06-15-2025
Description
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a distributed team across two continents 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 evaluation, development and rollout of new microservices
- 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 for supporting Okta’s future business needs
- Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers
Qualification & 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), including:
- 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
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- Knowledge of network security, authentication and authorization
- Experience with Java and/or Golang
Benefits
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
Company Profile
Okta
Industry
Software Development
Revenue
$1.86B
Employees
6,013
Fortune 500 Rank
#109
Global 500 Rank
NA
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