Engineering Manager - Data Foundations

Overview

Engineering Manager - Data Foundations at Okta for Developers

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 platform products provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

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

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. You will work with engineers across the organization to build foundational infrastructure that enables 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 modern technologies including Kinesis, Flink, Elastic Search, and Snowflake and we are looking to adopt GCP.

What You Will Be Doing

• Recruit and mentor a globally distributed and diverse team
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Documentation, Customer Support, Program Management, Tech Ops, and other scrum teams
• Engage in technical design and 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)
• Improve Okta’s technology, product, and engineering through professional acumen
• Participate in relevant Engineering work groups and on-call rotations
• Foster, enable and promote innovation
• Define team metrics and meet productivity goals
• Cloud infrastructure cost tracking and management in partnership with Okta’s Fin Ops team

What You Will Bring To The Role

• A track record of leading or managing high-performing platform teams (2 years 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 for automation and agile software development methodologies
• Prior experience with Data Platform
• Prior experience in software development with hands-on experience as an IC using 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 Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos
  • Developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems
• Experience with reliability engineering in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management

Additional qualifications (extra credit):
Deep Data & ML experience;
Multi-cloud experience;
Federal cloud environments / FedRAMP;
Contributed to distributed systems at high volume or criticality; attendance for in-person onboarding in San Francisco during the first week.

Compensation and Benefits

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington. Actual base salary depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, and paid leave in accordance with applicable plans and policies. For total rewards details please visit:

The annual base salary range for California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is $176,000–$264,000 USD.

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 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, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Reasonable accommodation requests are welcome throughout the process.

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