Engineering Manager - Data Foundations

Okta Data Platform Engineering Manager

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 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