Manager, Software Engineering

Okta, Inc.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 147,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in identity management is seeking a Manager for their Software Engineering team. The role involves leading product development for their Privileged Access Management product, focusing on usability, scale, and reliability. Candidates should have a strong background in SaaS products and technical management, with experience in leading teams and building high-performing engineering environments. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

RRSP with a match

Healthcare spending

Telemedicine

Paid leave

PTO

Parental leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building SaaS or Infrastructure software products.
• 2+ years of technical management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for building PAM features.
• Work closely with Product Management to implement the product roadmap.
• Mentor and develop engineers as they advance in their careers.

Skills

Leadership

Usability

Reliability

Autonomy

Education

Bachelors in CS

Tools

AWS

GCP

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Get to know Okta

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 Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re 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.

The Privileged Access Management Team (PAM)

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. .

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 Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re 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.

The Privileged Access Management Team (PAM)

The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. .

The Manager, Software Engineering Opportunity

We are looking for a manager to lead the product development team behind this fast-growing product as we continue our mission to secure the internet by building a scalable, reliable product that customers love to use.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for building the backend, frontend for PAM features..
• Work closely with Product Management to develop and implement our product roadmap.
• Empower your teams to focus on usability, scale and reliability.
• Recruit great engineers to accelerate our work.
• Mentor, retain and develop engineers as they advance in their own careers.
• Establishing clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for individuals and team
• Driving the execution and delivery of product features with high quality, collaborating with cross-functional teams, System Architects, QA, and Documentation teams

What you’ll bring to the role

• Have managed small teams with end-to-end ownership over their technical stack, development environment and production performance.
• Are excited to build an amazing product - and believe the best way to do so is by leading and empowering engineers.
• Are familiar with infrastructure tools such as AWS, GCP, Ansible, Terraform or Kubernetes.
• Have successfully built high-performing engineering teams which deliver their product “as a Service”.
• Have opinions on topics like feature flags, CI pipelines and technical debt.
• Are comfortable leading geographically distributed teams.
• Thrive on autonomy, and use it to get stuff done.

Required education and experience:

• 5+ years of experience building SaaS or Infrastructure software products as a software engineer or manager.
• 2+ years of technical management experience.
• Bachelors in CS, or equivalent

#LI-remote

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit:https://rewards.okta.com/can .

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $147,000 — $221,000 CAD

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 cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/ .

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/ .

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The foundation for secure connections between people and technology

Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.

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