Manager, Engineering (ISV Catalog)

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.

About the team

As part of our vision to Free Everyone to Safely Connect to any Technology, Okta is investing in a new team to help B2B / Enterprise SaaS companies showcase their integrations with Okta Integration Network (OIN) platform via a full-featured catalog and drive engagement and adoption through sophisticated analytics & telemetry.

This involves redesigning the technical architecture & the user experience of the OIN catalog to allow for expansion across multiple categories of integrations along with building analytical & telemetry tools on top of it to drive more ISVs to build with Okta. We are constantly thinking about fostering network effects on the existing OIN Platform by designing for reach, scale and extensibility.

Join us in building the next generation of the Okta, as we increase its footprint to even broader capabilities and showcasing them.

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 the ISV developer target persona 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:

• 2-4 years managing distributed 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.
• 8-10 years of prior development experience as a full-stack engineer before transitioning into engineering management. 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 distributed systems, and cloud-native development using one of the cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience working with at least one of the database technologies - MySQL, PostgreSQL with knowledge of improving database performance in read and write scenarios.
  • Prior experience with one of the backend languages (Java, C#, GoLang, NodeJS/Typescript) and optionally, a front-end UI framework (React, Angular). 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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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/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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