Manager, Engineering

The Okta Privileged Access Management Team (PAM)

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. .

The Software Engineering Manager

We are looking for a manager to lead the product development team behind this fast-growing product as we continue our mission to secure the internet by building a scalable, reliable product that customers love to use.

What you'll be doing

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for building the backend, frontend for PAM features.
• You'll lead the adoption of AI across your team's software development workflows, integrating it thoughtfully to improve productivity, quality, and speed.
• Work closely with Product Management to develop and implement our product roadmap.
• Empower your teams to focus on usability, scale and reliability.
• Recruit great engineers to accelerate our work.
• Mentor, retain and develop engineers as they advance in their own careers.
• Establishing clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for individuals and team
• Driving the execution and delivery of product features with high quality, collaborating with cross-functional teams, System Architects, QA, and Documentation teams

What you'll bring to the role

• Have managed software engineering teams with end-to-end ownership over their technical stack, development environment and production performance.

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude, with the ability to integrate them effectively into day-to-day engineering workflows.

• Are excited to build an amazing product - and believe the best way to do so is by leading and empowering engineers.
• Are familiar with infrastructure tools such as AWS, GCP, Ansible, Terraform or Kubernetes.
• Have successfully built high-performing engineering teams which deliver their product "as a Service".
• Have opinions on topics like feature flags, CI pipelines and technical debt.
• Are comfortable leading geographically distributed teams.
• Thrive on autonomy, and use it to get stuff done.

Required education and experience:

• 5+ years of experience building SaaS or Infrastructure software products as a software engineer or manager.
• 3+ years of experience being hands-on with Golang/Java/C++/C#
• Deep understanding of at least 1 major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• 2+ years of technical management experience.
• Bachelor's in CS, or equivalent

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