Engineering Manager - Access Essentials - Core Product

Role overview

Engineering Manager - Access Essentials - Core Product at Okta

About the role We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Client Foundations team.

While this role is a people management one, you’ll still need to bring relevant technical experience to ensure sound technical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to defining the strategic direction (product & technical) and roadmap for the team.
• Ensure a high-quality bar through testing and testing automation.

Required qualifications

• Required Skills, Attitude and Knowledge: 3+ years managing engineering teams, balancing new feature/product development and maintaining existing features.
• Demonstrated focus on delivering outcomes, balancing constraints and tight deadlines. 10-15 years of prior development experience with at least 4 years as macOS, iOS, or Android engineer.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [India]

Application details

• Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent.
• It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies: Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.

About the employer

• Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.
• About Okta’s Access Management Team Okta is The World’s Identity Company.
• Passwordless is the future of identity and authentication, which is why we, at Okta, have made it our goal to redefine how users authenticate to services.
• Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions.

Additional role details

• Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
• 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.
• We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app.
• Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
• The Access Management team drives billions of authentications every month.
• The team builds and supports single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, and threat protection technologies.
• Our Access Management service runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform with 99.99% availability.
• Devices are central to our mission.
• The Okta Verify app that facilitates passwordless authentication is available for iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows.
• Join our team!
• We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
• Operating under the larger Access Essentials group, the Client Foundations team supports our mission by building libraries, tooling, security and infrastructure for iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows platforms.
• The Client Foundation team is central to our success in this mission and ensures that we can ship innovation in a fast, reliable and secure manner.
• The Engineering Manager will be responsible for managing a team of software engineers that are domain experts in individual device platforms.
• What you’ll be doing 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 will - Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure technical leadership is being provided to the engineers on the team in terms of scalable and maintainable systems.
• Participate in and enable key team processes to organize & deliver key projects with high business impact.
• Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations and removing blockers, and feedback and coaching opportunities.
• Experience in stakeholder management, including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback.
• Experience and strong opinions on SDLC with testing automation & release orchestration using gating feature flags & configuration mgmt, and CI / CD platforms.
• Demonstrable knowledge of secure web development fundamentals, fault-tolerant systems, and knowledge of cloud technologies.
• They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency.
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies. #LI-Hybrid #P24164_3354327