Software Engineering Manager- Core (FED)
OktaSan Francisco, CaliforniaPosted 3 April 2026
Job Description
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. If you are too, let's talk.
The Core Engineering Team
Okta powers authentication and authorization for thousands of organizations worldwide. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for billions of logins worldwide. Within Okta, the Core team builds software and frameworks and works with infrastructure teams to deliver 99.99% uptime for our core authentication and authorization products.
The Software Engineering Manager Opportunity
Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization, and resiliency are first-class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.
What You’ll Be Doing
Manage a distributed team, including setting expectations and removing blockers, creating a collaborative working environment, hiring and recruitment, providing coaching and career management discussions
Collaborate with managers, architects, product owners, project managers, test partners, security and operations engineers to implement best practices related to resilience
Communicate and organize cross-team projects with high business impact
Contribute to defining the strategic direction and roadmap for the team
Develop backend frameworks and tools for the entire engineering organization to use at scale
Participate in the incident RCA process to continuously improve reliability and scale
Provide technical guidance to the engineers on the team
Drive the evaluation, development, and rollout of new services
Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.
Evaluate existing systems to evolve them to support Okta's future business needs
Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers
W hat You’ll Bring To The Role
Experienced in stakeholder management including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback
Adaptable to changing requirements and the ability to manage a team during a pivot in priorities.
Prior management experience of a distributed and diverse team
Experience with software architecture across the entire stack (design and implementation), including:
Understanding of monolithic applications and microservices
Cloud Infrastructure experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Datastores (SQL, NoSQL, Key/Value)
Containers (Docker, K8s)
Solid understanding of the Java platform
Experience with SaaS
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
Knowledge of network security, authentication, and authorization
Experience with Golang
Additional requirements:
This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
This role will require 2 days a week in the office.
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