Aimed at mid-level engineering managers with SaaS experience who thrive in distributed teams and AI-integrated workflows.
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Original posting from 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 Okta Privileged Access Management Team (PAM)
The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. .
The Software Engineering Manager
We are looking for a manager to lead the product development team behind this fast-growing product as we continue our mission to secure the internet by building a scalable, reliable product that customers love to use.
What you’ll be doing
Lead a team of engineers responsible for building the backend, frontend for PAM features.
You’ll lead the adoption of AI across your team’s software development workflows, integrating it thoughtfully to improve productivity, quality, and speed.
Work closely with Product Management to develop and implement our product roadmap.
Empower your teams to focus on usability, scale and reliability.
Recruit great engineers to accelerate our work.
Mentor, retain and develop engineers as they advance in their own careers.
Establishing clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for individuals and team
Driving the execution and delivery of product features with high quality, collaborating with cross-functional teams, System Architects, QA, and Documentation teams
What you’ll bring to the role
Have managed software engineering teams with end-to-end ownership over their technical stack, development environment and production performance.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude, with the ability to integrate them effectively into day-to-day engineering workflows.
Are excited to build an amazing product - and believe the best way to do so is by leading and empowering engineers.
Are familiar with infrastructure tools such as AWS, GCP, Ansible, Terraform or Kubernetes.
Have successfully built high-performing engineering teams which deliver their product “as a Service”.
Have opinions on topics like feature flags, CI pipelines and technical debt.
Are comfortable leading geographically distributed teams.
Thrive on autonomy, and use it to get stuff done.
Required education and experience:
5+ years of experience building SaaS or Infrastructure software products as a software engineer or manager.
3+ years of experience being hands-on with Golang/Java/C++/C#
Deep understanding of at least 1 major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
2+ years of technical management experience.
Bachelor's in CS, or equivalent
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