Vice President, Engineering - Authentication

Okta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 310,000 - 426,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Flexible spending account

Paid leave

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Vice President of Engineering – Authentication, responsible for guiding a globally distributed engineering team. This role emphasizes delivering secure authentication experiences and fostering innovation in identity products.

To thrive in this leadership position, candidates should possess over 12 years of full-stack development experience and at least 8 years in SaaS product engineering. The competitive salary range for this role is from $310,000 to $426,800.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in leading SaaS product engineering teams.
• 12+ years of experience in full-stack software development.
• 3+ years of experience with large-scale cloud infrastructure.
• Background in authentication and security is a plus.
• Deep expertise in securing cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale engineering organization to meet customer needs.
• Mentor engineering managers across distributed teams.
• Collaborate with Product & Design for identity products.
• Ensure operational excellence and process efficiencies.
• Maintain security, performance, and availability SLAs.
• Redefine Developer Experience with autonomous identity solutions.

Skills

SaaS product engineering

Full-stack software development

Cloud infrastructure management

Agile methodologies

DevOps practices

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Job description

Vice President, Engineering – Authentication

We are seeking a Vice President, Engineering – Authentication for the Auth0 Product Unit to lead a large, globally distributed engineering organization. You will report to the Auth0 Product Unit SVP of Engineering.

This technical leadership role is responsible for delivering on Authentication's mission: seamless, secure, and scalable login experiences with robust extensibility for both B2B and B2C customers. Your teams own the core engine that authenticates billions of requests, the developer tools that make integration seamless, the extensibility capabilities that allow customers to tailor Auth0 to meet the demands of any use case, and the pioneering frameworks that allow AI Agents to operate securely in a zero‑trust world.

What You Will Do:

• Work closely with our Engineering managers, Directors, and SVP of Engineering to help scale our Engineering Organization to meet our customer and product needs.
• Lead, mentor and coach a mix of new and seasoned engineering managers running widely distributed teams.
• Work closely with Product & Design to build the next generation of Identity products.
• Provide operational excellence and implement processes and policies that create efficiencies during a time of massive growth.
• Maintain our high security, performance and availability SLAs as we rapidly scale for enterprise customers handling billions of authentications.
• Lead teams that continuously ship new features with aggressive deadlines, measure the results, and iterate.
• Redefine Developer Experience for the AI era by building the infrastructure that allows developers to deploy autonomous agents with machine‑readable identity, scoped permissioning, and natural‑language policy enforcement.
• Continuously monitor team structure and investment levels providing recommendations for optimizations.
• Partner in a leading role with Program Management and Engineering leadership in roadmap planning.

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of experience in leading SaaS product engineering teams
• 12+ years of experience in various elements of full‑stack software development front end, back end, data and insights, and hands‑on coding experience in the past.
• 3+ years of experience running or using large‑scale infrastructure supporting a cloud service in a public cloud provider, preferably AWS and/or MS Azure.
• Background in Agentic experience, authentication, authorization and/or Security is a big plus
• Extensive experience using Agile and DevOps methodologies to build software services and associated infrastructure supporting monitoring, alerting and tooling required to operate it.
• Deep expertise in securing cloud infrastructure (e.g. security monitoring, key‑based authentication, role‑based authorization, audit logging and patching).
• Proven ability to earn respect, trust from people you work with and to mentor top technical talent.
• Technical leadership experience in design, implementation, and support of core back end, front end, customization, and database services that are highly reliable, flexible, and scalable.
• You set high standards and have demonstrated the ability to build and lead a high‑performance team.
• Prior experience in a fast‑paced and high‑growth company and are comfortable with putting systems in place and adjusting and adapting when needed.
• Effective verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills.

Salary & Benefits

The annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington is between $310,000 and $426,800 USD.

Okta offers equity, bonus, and benefits including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with applicable plans and policies.

Legal & Equal Opportunity

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.

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