Engineering Manager, AuthFGA Developer Platform

Job Overview

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.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the FGA Developer Tooling team in India. This team owns the end-to-end developer experience for FGA across OSS and SaaS, including SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python, Java, and other languages, the SDK generator that powers them, CLI workflows, IDE integrations, Git Hub automation, developer documentation, and release strategy. All development is done in the open as open source, and we actively welcome and review community contributions.

Our guiding principle is One developer experience, many deployment models.

Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for FGA SDKs, the SDK generator, CLI workflows, IDE integrations, and developer automation.

Drive execution of the Developer Tooling roadmap in partnership with Product and FGA Core, ensuring alignment across OSS and SaaS surfaces and delivering meaningful improvements to developers on a frequent and predictable cadence.

Oversee the evolution of the SDK generator and template framework to maintain cross language consistency, configurability, and long-term maintainability.

Ensure consistent and high quality implementation of SDK features including authentication flows, error handling, retry logic, rate limiting, and advanced capabilities such as Batch Check and List Relations.

Establish and maintain strong engineering standards for testing, CI workflows, dependency management, release processes, and developer documentation.

Foster a strong open source culture by ensuring community pull requests are reviewed promptly and contributors are supported in reaching a mergeable state.

Partner closely with FGA Core on API design and semantics to ensure a clean and developer friendly experience across all tooling.

Support career growth and development through regular 1:1s, coaching, feedback, and performance management.

Recruit and hire strong engineers to build and scale the Developer Tooling team in India.

Maintain a team culture of ownership, transparency, rigor, and psychological safety in a distributed environment.