Manager, Engineering - Identity Threat Protection

Overview

Build and lead a team of backend Java software engineers developing identity and security products, focused on authentication and authorisation platform features for the Okta Secure Identity Platform.

What you'll do

• Manage your team's goals, contribute to product strategy, and help develop your employees.
• Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and customer satisfaction.
• Contribute to defining the strategic direction (product and technical) and roadmap for the team.
• Provide technical leadership to engineers on the team in terms of scalable and maintainable systems.
• Ensure a high-quality bar through testing and testing automation.
• Participate in and enable key team processes to organize and deliver key projects with high business impact.
• Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent.
• Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations, removing blockers, and providing feedback and coaching.

What you'll need

• 3+ years managing engineering teams, balancing new feature/product development and maintaining existing features.
• Experience in stakeholder management, including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to build teams from the ground up, managing performance, mentoring and coaching teams.
• Demonstrated focus on delivering outcomes, balancing constraints and tight deadlines.
• 7-10 years of prior software development experience with Java or other backend technologies.
• Relevant technical experience to ensure sound technical decision-making.
• Experience and strong opinions on SDLC with testing automation and release orchestration using gating feature flags and configuration management, and CI/CD platforms.
• Demonstrable knowledge of secure web development fundamentals, fault-tolerant systems, and cloud technologies.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.