Engineering Manager, Okta

Okta Personal

CA$139-209k

+ Bonus

React
TypeScript
Senior level
Remote in Canada
Okta

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

Be an early applicant

Okta

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Be an early applicant

CA$139-209k

+ Bonus

React
TypeScript
Senior level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Company mission

To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate brings passion and a track record of leading end-user facing development teams, a strong sense of ownership and proactivity, and an ability to adapt and respond quickly in a fast-moving environment
  • 2-4 years managing distributed, consumer-oriented, user-facing engineering teams, focused on new feature/product development
  • Prior development experience before transitioning into engineering management
  • Experience working as a developer or Engineering Manager in a consumer software company
  • Experience in stakeholder management including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback
  • Proven ability to adapt to changing requirements and the ability to manage a team during a pivot in priorities
  • Demonstrated focus on outcomes, driven to deliver for end-users
  • Understanding of monolithic applications and microservices
  • Frontend web development and mobile apps
  • How backend design supports frontend development
  • End-user focused security
  • Data architecture to support data-driven development

Desirable

  • Identity and access management (IAM) domain (OAuth, SAML and other SSO technologies, WebAuthn and Passkeys, etc.)
  • Development in our key platforms: React/Typescript for the web and Chrome Extensions
  • Experience bringing a new software product(s) to market

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for great engineering leaders to help us build this team that will define the future of personal identity on the internet
  • 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’ll:
  • Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and end user satisfaction
  • Contribute to defining the strategic direction and roadmap for the team
  • Participate in and enable key team processes to organize key projects with high business impact
  • Ensure a high-quality bar for our users through testing and testing automation
  • Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent
  • Ensure technical leadership is being provided to the engineers on the team
  • Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations and removing blockers, and feedback and coaching opportunities

Our take

Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.

The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. They aim to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.

Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.

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Freddie

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

19% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Sep 2015

$75m

SERIES F

Jun 2014

$75m

SERIES E

Total funding: $229.3m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health + Wellness
  • Financial Benefits
  • Pay + Incentives
  • Time Off
  • Everyday Living
  • Resources

Company values

  • Love our customers
  • Never stop innovating
  • Act with integrity
  • Be transparent
  • Empower our people

Company HQ

The East Cut, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.

Frederic Kerrest

(Vice Chairman)

Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.


People progressing

Joined as Senior Manager, Recruiting EMEA and promoted to Director, Recruiting EMEA after 3 years. Promoted again to Senior Director, Recruiting EMEA after another 3 years.

Diversity & Inclusion at Okta

  • Workforce: We believe in recruiting diverse talent to create balanced teams
  • Workplace: We support and empower employees to be authentic and grow through open conversations and education
  • Marketplace: We go to market and sell to diverse audiences

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