# Software Engineering Manager- Core (FED)

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $204k – $255k/yr
**Skills:** Java, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, SQL, NoSQL, Microservices, SaaS, Go
**Posted:** 2026-04-02

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**

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