Engineering Manager - Data Foundations
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
About the Team
The Data Platform Group is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform Group solves challenges and enables:
- Streaming analytics
- Interactive end-user reporting
- Data and ML platform for Okta to scale
- Telemetry of our products and data
Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.
About the Position
This is an opportunity for Engineering Managers to join our Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As the manager of the Data Foundations team in the Data Platform Group, your team will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the foundational systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake and are now looking to adopt GCP.
We are seeking an Engineering Manager with a strong technical background and excellent communication skills to join us and partner with senior leadership as a thought leader in our strategic Data & ML projects. Our platform projects have a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have a sizable impact on the direction, design & implementation of the data solutions to these problems.
What you will be doing:
- Recruit and mentor a globally distributed and talented group of diverse employees
- Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Documentation, Customer Support, Program Management, TechOps, and other scrum teams.
- Engage in technical design and discussions and also help drive technical architecture
- Ensure the happiness and productivity of the team’s software engineers
- Communicate the vision of our product to external entities
- Help mitigate risk (technical, product, personnel)
- Utilize professional acumen to improve Okta’s technology, product, and engineering
- Participate in relevant Engineering workgroups and on-call rotations
- Foster, enable and promote innovation
- Define team metrics and meet productivity goals of the organization
- Cloud infrastructure cost tracking and management in partnership with Okta’s FinOps team
What you will bring to the role:
- A track record of leading or managing high performing platform teams (2 year experience minimum)
- Experience with end to end project delivery; building roadmaps through operational sustainability
- Strong facilitation skills (design, requirements gathering, progress and status sessions)
- Production experience with distributed systems running in AWS. GCP a bonus
- Passion about automation and leveraging agile software development methodologies
- Prior experience with Data Platform
- Prior experience in software development with hands-on experience as an IC using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including
- Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka
- Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam
- Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop
- Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos
- Developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems
- Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- Deep Data & ML experience
- Multi-cloud experience
- Federal cloud environments / Fedramp
- Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop
**This person must attend in person onboarding in San Francisco the first week.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at https://www.okta.com/legal/personnel-policy/.
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