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 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 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 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 methodologies Prior experience with Data Platform Prior experience in software development with hands-on experience as an IC using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including Messaging systems such as Kinesis Kafka Data processing systems like Flink Spark Beam Storage Compute systems such as Snowflake Hadoop Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes Hadoop Mesos Developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality data observability and incident management And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following Deep Data ML experience Multi-cloud experience Federal cloud environments Fedramp Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop 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 perks 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 Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at https www okta com legal personnel-policy Okta 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