Software Engineering Manager- Core (FED)
Leads a distributed team building and maintaining core shared infrastructure, backend frameworks, and services for authentication products. Requires prior management experience, software architecture expertise across the stack, and cloud-native technologies.
About the job
What You’ll Be Doing
- Manage a distributed team, 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 the evaluation, development, and rollout of new services
- 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 to support 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, Kubernetes)
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 Golang
Skills
Java, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, SQL, NoSQL, Microservices, SaaS, Go
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