Senior Engineering Manager - Core

Job Description

What You ll Be Doing 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 What You ll Bring To The Role 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