Software Engineering Manager - Core & Resilience Engineering

Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. ABOUT THE TEAM 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 distributed cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, internal tooling for developer support, 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.  ROLE: This is an opportunity for an experienced Backend engineer to join our growing Core Platform team based out of Bengaluru. In this role, you will get to work with highly skilled and talented engineers throughout the organization to build and manage some of the critical platform services powering Okta’s products and infrastructure. This role requires a blend of high-level architectural thinking and hands-on execution to build resilient, high-performance backend services. We are not only passionate about building services but operating them at scale, making them resilient to provide a seamless service to our customers. You'll be leading a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have  RESPONSIBILITIES: * Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform on AWS) * Drive evaluation, development and roll out of new common microservices * Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business. * Help with design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standard by writing unit and functional tests. * Be part of a structured on-call roster, assist with monitoring, troubleshooting of services and frameworks the team owns * Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers * Help with mentoring new engineering hires and interns MINIMUM REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: * Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth * Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging services in a Cloud native environment preferably in the enterprise world * Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent * 12+ yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A good understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, memory management. * 7+ yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems.  * Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and good understanding of its fundamentals * Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and Tomcat * Knowledge of AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Docker * Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles * Familiarity with Agile software development process NICE TO HAVE: * Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure * Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, distributed systems for high availability and scale * Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack   #LI-Hybrid P22377_3405787 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. 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 complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. ABOUT OKTA Okta is an enterprise grade identity management service, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta you can manage access across any application, person, or device. Whether the people are employees, partners, or customers, or the applications are in the cloud, on premises, or on a mobile device, Okta helps you become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance. The Okta service provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems. ABOUT THE TEAM The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform team solves challenges and enables: * Streaming analytics  * Interactive end-user reporting  * Data and ML platform for Okta to scale * Telemetry of our products and data Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.  ABOUT THE POSITION This is an opportunity for experienced Software Engineers to join our fast growing Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake.  We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who can help design and own the building, deploying and optimizing the streaming infrastructure. This project has a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have a sizable impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems.   JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components * Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation * Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning * Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization * Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack    REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:  * 8+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java  * Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including * Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka  * Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam * Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop * Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos * Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems * Excellent grasp of software engineering principles * Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management * Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management NICE TO HAVE * Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure * Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services * Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems. * Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop * Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack #LI-Hybrid #P22344 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. 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 complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. THE OPPORTUNITY The Migration Services team builds the critical, data-driven services that seamlessly move customers across environments in real-time. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead, mentor, and grow this pivotal team.This is a unique opportunity to shape the team's technical direction and culture from the ground up, and you will be helping build and hire for this team.   You are a people-focused leader who is also deeply technical, capable of guiding architectural decisions and willing to be hands-on when needed. This role requires extensive collaboration with numerous Product teams and a close partnership with our Customer Service organization, which utilizes the tooling your team builds to execute customer migrations. If you are passionate about building high-performing teams, driving technical strategy, and delivering high-impact projects, we want to hear from you. WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE * Build and lead a world-class team. You will recruit, mentor, and support a team of skilled engineers, fostering a strong, collaborative culture and keeping the team motivated and engaged. * Own the roadmap and execution. You will partner with product and stakeholder teams to define the team's strategy and roadmap. You'll be responsible for prioritizing work and ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality, reliable services. * Drive engineering excellence. You will hold the team to a high standard of quality, reliability, and operational robustness, championing best practices in software development, from code reviews to incident management. * Master cross-functional collaboration. You will serve as the key interface between your team and stakeholders across product, engineering, and customer service, ensuring alignment and smooth execution on complex, cross-team initiatives. WHAT YOU'LL BRING * Proven engineering leadership. You have experience as an Engineering Manager or a Tech Lead with a strong desire to focus on people management. * A passion for people. You have a track record of coaching and developing engineers, providing thoughtful feedback, and guiding career growth. * Strong technical and architectural acumen. You have a background in building scalable, distributed systems and are comfortable guiding technical discussions. A willingness to get hands-on with code is essential. * Exceptional project management skills. You excel at creating technical roadmaps, prioritizing effectively in an agile environment, and managing complex project dependencies. * Collaborative leadership style. Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills enable you to build strong relationships with stakeholders and inspire your team. BONUS POINTS * Proficiency in Golang and experience with data-intensive applications. * Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB * Experience with distributed streaming platforms like Kafka. * Familiarity with concepts in the IAM (Identity and Access Management) domain. * Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker. #Hybrid PID Number : P24566 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. 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 complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.